Wildbase Recovery Community Trust

Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery is a national recovery, rehabilitation and education facility the provides for native wildlife as they recover from illness and injury after treatment at Massey University’s Wildbase Hospital.

The aviaries are open to the public at Palmerston North’s Victoria Esplanade and operated by Wildbase Hospital staff, New Zealand’s most skilled and resourced wildlife vets. The Massey team are sent our rarest and most endangered animals – often dealing with the cases too difficult or specialised to be dealt with elsewhere in NZ.

Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery facility has specialised aviaries, a circular flight aviary for tui, kotare and kereru, a five-metre-tall raptor aviary for karearea, kahu and ruru recovery pools for ocean, shore and wetlands birds to restore their waterproofing, and a place for ground-dwelling birds including kiwi and weka. Coupled with a national education programme using the Nature of Science framework laid out for the New Zealand primary school curriculum and the DoC National Education Strategy, this facility the gold standard in native wildlife rehabilitation and education.