Australian Wildlife Intelligent Habitat & Browse Platform

Australia's Intelligent Wildlife Habitat & Browse Platform

Connecting technology, habitat intelligence and community collaboration so every native animal has access to safe habitat and sustainable browse resources.

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Browse 4 a Better Future

Koala in eucalypt at sunrise — Habi-Food

Smarter Data

Real-time intelligence and mapping

Stronger Habitat

Restoration and protection

Connected Community

Carers, landholders and partners

Better Outcomes

For wildlife today and tomorrow

Wildlife carer using Habi-Food in the field beside a koala

What is Habi-Food?

Built for the people who do the actual work

Habi-Food is an intelligent platform designed to help wildlife rehabilitators locate suitable browse, map habitat, and access environmental data faster and more effectively.

Faster access to habitat, browse, nutrition and environmental data.

No data entry burden. It runs on government data that already exists.

Private by design. No carer is ever profiled, compared or judged.

"The right information, at the right time, for the people who do the actual work — so the work is worth doing for the rest of their lives."

The problem nobody has fixed

Every carer has these problems. Until now, nobody connected the data.

Wildlife rehabilitation is carried by volunteers who fund rescues themselves and have almost no shared infrastructure. The information that would let them plan is already sitting in a council, DEECA or fire-agency database — it has simply never reached them.

"Where do I find manna gum branches at 8pm on a Tuesday?"

→ GPS the nearest food tree. Navigate. Done.

"Nobody told me about the burn until the wombats started arriving."

→ Planned burn alerts in your area — weeks ahead.

"Is that roadside safe to collect from, or did they spray it?"

→ Chemical treatment map: product, date, safe-from date.

"The arborist was done before I knew there were animals in the tree."

→ Tree-work alerts — before felling begins.

"When is that bush block getting cleared?"

→ Clearing permit notifications — before it happens.

"I need a release site and can't spend three hours driving to check it."

→ Tap the map — instant habitat, burn & chemical report.

None of it requires carers to enter data. It runs on government data that already exists — finally connected to the people who need it.

Features

One Platform. Many Solutions.

Everything a wildlife rehabilitator needs to find food, assess habitat and stay ahead of what's coming.

Habitat Mapping

Map and assess habitat quality across Australia using real-time vegetation data and ecological insights.

Browse Management

Find, plan and manage sustainable browse sources for native wildlife — with printable volunteer run sheets.

Rescue Support

Support wildlife rescue and rehabilitation with practical tools and connected resource networks.

Data & Insights

Powerful dashboards and reports that drive better conservation outcomes — for carers and agencies alike.

Community Network

Collaborate with carers, landholders, councils and conservation groups — without ever exposing your practice.

Revegetation Planning

Plan and monitor restoration projects that build the long-term habitat wildlife will need in five years' time.

How it works

Three jobs the sector has never had a tool for

1Find browse & assess release sitesGPS-locate the nearest food tree for any species, build a printable volunteer collection sheet, and assess a release site from a map tap — without leaving the shelter.

2Know what's coming before it arrivesPlanned burns, clearing permits, arborist work and chemical spraying surface automatically from government data — advance warning instead of reactive crisis.

3Two tiny data points that help everyoneLog a rescue or release in 30 seconds and it builds an anonymous, location-gridded picture of where animals are found and where they're going. Nothing else is ever shared.

Try it in demo mode

Habi-Food platform on laptop showing nearest food trees and planned burn alerts

Built on real data

Authoritative sources only. Privacy by design.

Food suitability is derived strictly from official Ecological Vegetation Class data and documented foraging ecology — no speculative modelling, no guesswork.

8+Live government data sources

80,000+Mapped urban trees integrated

79Victorian LGAs covered

0Carer records ever exposed

Never shared

How long an animal is in care, care methods, outcomes, shelter throughput — or anything that describes how a specific carer operates.

Shared & safe

Anonymous, location-gridded rescue and release density only. Nobody knows who logged it; the aggregate benefits every carer equally.

Sources

VicMap, FFMVic planned burns, Melbourne Urban Forest, iNaturalist, and DEECA EVC species metadata — all authoritative and unmodified.

Get involved

Seeking Strategic Partners

Habi-Food is building national conservation infrastructure. We are seeking support through:

Government GrantsPrograms supporting biodiversity, technology and volunteer sustainability.

Environmental FundingConservation and habitat restoration funders backing measurable outcomes.

Corporate SponsorshipBrands who want a real, verifiable environmental impact story.

Research PartnershipsUniversities and institutes working on wildlife, habitat and data science.

We are seeking short-term expertise in:

Software Development

Front-end and back-end engineers who can help scale the platform nationally.

GIS Systems

Spatial data specialists to connect and normalise government layers.

AI / Machine Learning

Applied ML for habitat and phenology prediction — grounded, never speculative.

UI / UX Design

Designers who can keep a complex data tool usable at 2am in the field.

Environmental Data Engineering

Pipelines that turn agency feeds into something a carer can act on in seconds.

Contribute to national conservation infrastructure

If you can help — professionally, in kind, or with an introduction — we would like to hear from you.

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Support Habi-Food

Fund the tool that keeps carers going

Habi-Food is designed, built and self-funded by Totally Untamed Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation — a working shelter, not a funded organisation. Your donation keeps development moving, connects more government data, and keeps Habi-Food free for the carers who need it. Please add "Habi-Food" as your payment reference.

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