Wildlife rescue group Wires faces crunch vote amid volunteer discontent over funds raised after bushfires
by Daisy Dumas from Environment | The Guardian on (#6P5X2)
Donations grew dramatically after Australia's black summer but animal carers say they didn't receive enough
Australia's largest wildlife rescue organisation faces a landmark vote on Sunday, as members unhappy with the distribution of donations after the black summer bushfires attempt to change its constitution.
The income of the Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (Wires), based in NSW, ballooned from $3m to more than $100m thanks to the success of its fundraising campaign after the catastrophic fires of 2019-20, which burned millions of hectares of land and reportedly killed or displaced 3 billion animals.
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