The Australian Registry of Wildlife Health is committed to contributing to the preservation of Australia's biodiversity through increased understanding of the interactions among animals, the environment, and disease causing agents. The aim is to continue to enhance the Registry so that it can better contribute to wildlife health research, education and surveillance for the benefit of human health, domestic animal health, the agroeconomy, and wildlife care and management in Australia.

The Australian Registry of Wildlife Health is a diagnostic and resource centre that improves Australia's ability to detect and diagnose endemic, emerging and exotic diseases of wildlife that could have negative impacts on Australia's trade/economy, biodiversity, tourism and human health. 

The Australian Registry of Wildlife Health was established by Dr. Bill Hartley at Taronga Zoo in 1985 to develop a collection of information and materials relating to healthy and diseased native fauna and zoo animals.  Since 1985, the Registry has grown into a significant resource centre to allow us to better understand the health of Australian ecosystems.  As a diagnostic centre the Registry manages a high wildlife caseload.  In fact, at the International Wildlife Disease Association Conference in Cairns, 2005, Dr. Philip Ladds presented data illustrating that the Registry has a higher caseload of free ranging animals than all of the State and Commonwealth agriculture agencies combined. 

The Registry is regularly used by private, government and university based veterinarians, researchers and biologists.  Currently, the Registry is largely operated as an activity undertaken in the discretionary time of the ZPB's veterinary pathologist and pathology clerk.  Access to materials and information in the Registry is free to those interested in the study of wildlife health.

Contact

Taronga Zoo
P.O. Box 20
Mosman, NSW, 2088
Fax: 02-9978-4516
Link: www.arwh.org