Habi-Food brings together Victorian habitat and tree data, browse-sourcing tools, live alerts and local layers — helping wildlife rehabilitators, shelters, councils, planners, landholders and jurisdictions make informed, timely decisions and protect what matters.
Find species-specific native food, nearest-tree locations and build volunteer collection run-sheets.
Verified habitat layers, EVC and tree data across Victoria to guide care and successful release.
Planned burns, spraying, clearing and VicEmergency warnings matched to your suburb — act earlier.
Set operating areas, data scope and permissions so each authority works with confidence.
Exact locations stay encrypted. Share only what's needed, with role-based access.
Generate scoped reports, track trends and demonstrate impact for informed planning.
Coordinate with your network and reach guidance, templates and best-practice playbooks.
Multi-layer maps with local context, land use, planning and environmental data.
Habi-Food is a wildlife-habitat intelligence platform built by a self-funded Victorian rescue — for the people who do the work. It turns scattered, gatekept environmental data into practical answers: where to source the right native browse, where a released animal will thrive, and what hazards are unfolding nearby right now.
Everyone sees the same facts. Data flows both ways — from government and researchers to carers and community, and back — so decisions rest on current, unbiased, peer-reviewable information.
Browse sourcing, habitat and release intelligence, and live local information — so communities and organisations can build circular ecosystems and share the data that matters, both ways.
Search species-specific native food, see the nearest suitable trees on a live map, and build efficient volunteer collection runs with source-protection rest intervals built in.
Match an animal to habitat that will actually support it — EVC vegetation, tree cover and local layers guide right-release decisions and long-term survival.
Communities and organisations get live access to planned burns, works, hazards and habitat change — the intelligence needed to future-proof their own suburbs.
Information flows from government and researchers to carers and community — and field observations flow back. Everyone works from the same current, non-gatekept picture, so each suburb gets stronger over time.
Habi-Food draws on recognised environmental, planning, fire and wildlife datasets — each shown with its real status, never fabricated to fill a gap.
Planned campaign concepts to support wildlife rehabilitators and build habitat that lasts. Fund a Function launches first — the rest are on the way.
Enquiries and partnerships, or roll up your sleeves and help in the field.
For data access, field partnerships and organisational enquiries. Your details are encrypted and only used to answer your request.
Prefer the full guided flow? Open “How can we help?” — it routes animal emergencies, donations and volunteering to your closest shelter.
Habi-Food is built so a licence-issuing authority — a state or national wildlife agency — can run the whole platform for its own sector. Licence access to the infrastructure and we configure it to your country or state's needs: your licensing structure, species, regions, permit cycles and emergency contacts.
In Victoria the jurisdiction is DEECA. The same infrastructure can stand up for any jurisdiction that licenses wildlife carers — with its own configuration & management interface, data sovereignty and branding.
The platform is only as good as the data your area has. It works from the datasets your jurisdiction already holds or can source — with both live-API and static-data options — and grows richer as more sources are connected.
Habi-Food is built for Victoria, by those who care for it — and ready to grow wherever wildlife carers need it.
