RECEIVING a call at 7am in the morning from a lady who's found a small sugar glider wrapped around a barb wired fence is a situation Barb Adamson is fed up with.

After receiving the call Ms Adamson went to attend to the animal at the fence at Mount Julian.

"We had to try and unwind him. You get a couple of unwinds the other way and you realise you can't because it's stuck in so far,” she said.

"We had to cut the fence either side of him and take him straight to Orchid Valley Vets. They were luckily able to take him straight to theatre and save him. They are just amazing.”

Ms Adamson is a species liaison officer with Fauna Rescue Whitsundays and wants the region to know there are small things they can do to prevent severely harming the region's wildlife.

"I would love if we could convince people to use ordinary wire or cover the barb wire. Animals like bats and gliders get wrapped around them. It tears their flying membrane, and it can take forever to mend. Sometimes they have to be euthanised,” she said.

"Sometimes they take two days to die and during that time they'll actually chew that limb to try and free themselves. "Our motto is if something is going to die it should die quickly.”

Ms Adamson said there were three different types of gliders in the area - sugar gliders, squirrel gliders and feather gliders.

"People don't realise that they've got them here and there's quite a few here,” she said.

"They are not endangered yet but if we keep not caring for them, they will be.”

There are two ways Ms Adamson said people could prevent harming the animals - change or cover the wire people used on their fences and locking up their cats at night.

Fauna Rescue Whitsundays covers the area from Collinsville to Sarina and Ms Adamson said they needed more volunteers.

If you see an injured animal or would like to volunteer contact the 24/7 hotline 49473389.