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its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the well and the bottom line. that one of us strangely is beloved. they're under threat from one of the most painful diseases in the natural world. on the critically endangered list for the twenty's. in my mind. one on one east makes that war is unique sanctuary could hold the key to the survival.
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is a survivor when she was hit by a car many of her bones were broken during. the local vet wanted to put her down but donna stepan doesn't give up on a woman. she's building a sanctuary dedicated to saving one by. its own sleepy bar and the life here is anything but sleep in one word but would you describe your daily schedule of. insight because that's what everybody tells me i am. every year holding 301 back to me to help brought here to her property in rural
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south while. most of the one bats are orphans after they bother with one call. to daughter and her husband to build their own individual net bag that is most generally cat scan all this is casual. and this is eminem's kitchen frame to ensure morris let me. go. quiet. now they are. the youngest formats live in 3 rooms of the house and certainly make themselves a hong kong someone's just a cottage and. octagon lot which want.
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to. get into trouble. boy she not that. it might not seem like it here but wombats. solitary territorial animal donna's job is to prepare the food for eventual late into the. 3rd the 1st one but it's better to around 6 am. come back to the last one around 11 pm so since all of this is. an old guy job and frankly i don't think i'm cut out for a while whoa whoa but. when they're not causing him the young sleep in boxes and bags set up to replicate a borrowed or a mother's pouch this used to pay
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a living room and as you can see now. it has been taken. by well that's completely the idea was never to have them in the house it was to keep it secret but the centuries just growing to a point now that it's not it's not possible that. we're at 200 percent capacity. so if this is going to land. the youngest is amba who survived offer a car killed her mother if she was killed i mean just 50 grams when she emerged from the pound ammons quite literally a handful of. what i do as i tend to while and before i hate. so that when i feed her she's come thank. you she's already got it in the right day.
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and this is her 4th week so she's she's doing good. always nestled under donor shirts abah requires feeding every 2 hours. she's making good progress. 65 grams. but in 5 grand. i am happy. every 2 rows with. another one and he is right at home and playing with the family dog. but domestication is he's probably. right used to the patient in the city and he was fed dog food and only taking out saw it on car trips. one but it's normally spent about 2 years here before they're ready for release
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into the wild but former pets like andy teich much long. we hear of people who have the mill eagerly all the time you go to remember some of these one but have never been outside. he'd never even grass he didn't know what dirty is this is beautiful and that i can interact with him i can be with him but at the same time it makes me angry because it's not how he should be. but we'll fix. it was a callous i don't know what i want to sit on the pot. she saw a car of you run over warm about rising by the roadside then drive away. they probably didn't even know about them but it was probably just a night of fun. there was no thought to what would happen afterwards to the animal
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how long it would take to die the fact that they drove off laughing. i promised it to that animal that i would make a difference. i knew i could create something good with it so. search. what has come out if that as horrible as it was is something i hope is more powerful in the long run for one bets. since then donna has built sleepy barros each with school for one but it's the pens around the sanctuary prepare them for last doc in the wad this is one but primary school in each of these compartments there is a barra which the young juveniles will go into i will bring them in and then only for short periods of time but that's to replicate what would be happening with their mothers and through that they will gain just that slight bit of confidence being on their own and they move it got back into the studio. i have
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a time this would get longer and longer and longer when they get to a point where they actually don't want to come inside with me that's when we actually move them up into one that high school it's a long drawn out prices like rising a toddler multiple toddlers sitting around. on the outer edges of the century place he's caught by working with the larger wombats as they become ready for relationship we go to so good why pretty quick. you'll start running. with money which the. big bads was just a bag right. now these bricks keeps feel on his toys how do you determine when it's time to release. a big one but how do you know it's time for me to century. for stick my hand in any type of office a little. you know if i can dig your big receive. and.
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just make up i'm like gold in the bar they're all pretty good songs of the old order. to one of the 1st one bats released into the wild has come back to be that sleepy borrowers. don't you cold big vege their teacher she. it's significant in that because of the bond that i have with the trust that i have with. i was able to get close to the bush. so i could watch monitor and then bring that information back and we based our we built their environment it around what feds told us. but soon ours don't know discover has a shocking development she has it start in the frontier all over here just head loss. big house saw coptic my age and she said she got it quite severely on her
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belly. so clearly it's at the sanctuary. not happy to see her if you're trying to. suck up to is a vice who can tie just to things when left on trees and the results are reduced to mange is a parasite in the last decade it has escalated to every single year the amount of areas with mange one that's just continuing creases 10 years ago i could have given you mange 3 areas that we look to release in i could not do that now for you going by our daily would we believe around 70 percent of the wall population in new south wales is directly affected by mange.
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but the worst recorded outbreaks of that night can be found on the southern island of tasmania and around to prove national park is ground 0 for the disease. the woman population in this national park declined by non to 4 percent in just 6 years because of mine which. now locals few with up by g.e. to venture. other wombat populations who go the same wire we've seen them disappear in the hundreds just in this area admittedly this is the worst area probably but it's not always so lighted into this area see he's been at a caravan park nearby the main you showing me a graphic example of the problem. to wombats with badly advanced mange looking for water and grass that's one that we've been training now on and off for a year because you can't find his bar he doesn't seem to be responding to treatment
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really well. to try and save the local population the works with a community action group. in a last ditch effort by swap one of the one bats box with side deck to a chemical used to treat sheep last. how do you feel when you see one bats like that to me it's quite confronting to say is it is and if we say one that died and we often do that it's just heartbreaking. the mites which caused by age can thrive in a barrel for up to 3 wakes. me up another volunteer lauren fortnight is helping bay to find the wombats forest tong yes some of the team put flaps at the entrance and put it aside decked and don't use to treat them all back it's what we feel they soft want to wake with subject and it's we've got
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a nice sore spot old it's a chemical that treats the mind smile the one back tips up the flap which dispenses the chemical exactly where we want it on the back usually that's the healthiest healthy is part of the one that. this method is very simple and can be done by almost anyone the beauty of it is we're not having to disrupt the frame even more that i can continue about their normal daily life but they getting treated. cameras monitor their behavior but the volunteers admits the success of the treatment comes down to luck and best is a bandaid solution because one bats use multiple barriers and often mice with infected animals of say no they are healthy when going in the same bar as a mangy one he would go to and. that sort of thing just keep reinfecting each other . quite despondent we go up and down we feel some days we're making
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a difference and then other days when nurse. undeterred big keeps making more borrowed flops in her garage using ice cream could time the lives she says demand for her mange kids is higher than ever across tasmania. the volunteers believe the government should be doing more so far all the government's really done is just monitoring why aren't they treating the animals seriously if you would be prosecuted if your dog was walking around with mange and you just looked at it and monitored it so you're saying it's a conservation issue and that we are seeing the decline of one bats one bats at a statewide level are not decreasing in tasmania the numbers are increasing or at very least stable dr rosemary giles' is a biodiversity expert who works with the tasmanian government department responsible for mind control she says while the parasite is bad in one bats across
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the island there is no reason for a long we're confident that several populations are increasing. we have evidence and we're happy to rely on that it's robust we do know there's been a regional and a very localised decline there's no denying that's true but i want that same day engine absolutely not for anyone but affected by mindless normal welfare issues it's a terrible thing to see an animal so severely afflicted by mange and so that's a real priority to try and find. and effective treatment we need a dr that doesn't have to be applied as often for as long. dr scott carlo from the university of tasmania hopes he might have the answer with tasmanian government funding he's trialing a new topical treatment for you. at the moment if we want to treat along that from the ranger wall on that we have to use treatments for we have to deliver every week
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and it's really challenging to do that consistently to a lot of that so what we're trying to look at as a longer lasting single treatment that can protect individuals for up to peps 3 months. psychotic mange cause is perhaps the most animal suffering of any disease i've ever worked on and one by the same particularly susceptible one of the reasons is that they live in a bar and in that bar the mines are able to survive off the warm beds for long enough that it can reinfect and one beds die and mount a very good immune response against mange disease and end up getting a very severe form of of the disease called custom mange there's probably no one solution at the moment we don't have any technique that really controls it and while populations and that's perhaps the key challenge. back at the sleepy borrow the sanctuary or agrees more victims solution they to be
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. the whole approach to the current epidemic needs to change we need to remove. emotions and know that the reality is. that the majority of these animals need to be euthanized in the best interests of the. that's the harsh reality of where we're at. i know a lot of people want to accept that. but with mainstream but that we work with for every 100. probably around 90 percent coming that's the reality so that 10 percent that do survive those are your core animals to concentrate on those have a stronger immune system that can recover and that can be reintroduced to the wild and that's the gene pool that you want to work on. it's unfortunate that we got to this position. it is what it is we need to work smarter before we really want out
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of time. they've got the welcoming committee. marcus foth is a professor of industrial design he's working with donna to create an alternative treatment solution for manged wombats brought into care so this one here is rumors and closure. for 3 years they've been testing whole borrow hospitals many quarantine stations built on top of natural borrowers if i open this book down here you can see there's a very regular normal natural woman. that a woman a healthy woman has constructed for us and that's how the design started then we can build the pod here and so this is where a woman can call me when he wants to feature wildlife carers could use these borrowed hospitals to treat one bats with
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a pill while they are feeding because it's a very quick to administer treatment just once a week the rest of the week there is no other stress factors and we're trying to limit any other influence of human contact so the main purpose behind this is to create a less intrusive process for a while. yeah but the sad reality is that a lot of warm beds in the wild if the mange infection has progressed to such a stage that they have secondary infection and they eventually sometimes turn blind or deaf this particular treatment methods is not going to save them in fact the humane thing would be to put them down for a hospital from what i understand of them fantastic for tracing individual one that's a marine and one gets into captivity but they're never going to manage or replace disease management at the population scale those things always have a limitation on the number of animals that can go through them we know it works we
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use it here for the last 2 years if we could recreate that over and over again in the different states managed by the people who currently put their energy towards maine that's in the wrong way they could become their own quarantine centers that people could utilize the results would speak for themselves to be able to fully hold all of this. to the very wage. so initially. you're. dealing with trouble but it has become a part of everyday life we don't profess to for says he couldn't have done the project we've now done is completely amazing having worked for so many years day in day out and night and night all but one buds she is a beautiful woman whisper and understand some quiet quite naturally.
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the last 100. people on the lower 5th receive. ok. well you get a certain structure yet. you are the grassroots one but conservation groups are sounding a very similar warning about mange yet the government and academics are saying the population nationally is stable and there is nothing to be concerned about the people who sit at desks spend one week with me those people who are saying and making those remarks they are not working every single day with the magnitude that we see that makes me angry i almost want to say
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hair day because what they put out as academics and so-called experts is what the world is believing and it's not the true message of what's going on. so don't tell me there's not a problem rather come and see what we deal with directly to tell me there's no problem sorry. yeah. despite the challenges they face the sanctuary's work doesn't stop when you want bouts always the wrong. dead lady 10 minutes from going to reveal which side i'm going to have to go down. get this one that you mean come back pick up. here. to heads to a nearby town to pick up a woman from a local bass. the boy oh boy really going corridors.
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need picking up the spain. clicked on with. this joey was found in his dead mother this past weekend. that's growing smaller and this one you will have. to take into account in those books it's another mouth to feed at sleepy borrowers but phil says don't take the challenges of sanctuary laws even though strong. she's a trooper she just chug along all the nation doesn't. really exist the courage and love for animals like you. are in this whole of this. i'm just told. despite the growing burden donna never releases a while back until it's ready i don't push any animal i let them go at their own
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ties. through the rehabilitation process and. we must be doing something right because our success right is 9095 percent so everything that i do. good and getting them comfy getting that getting them confident it's not to do a one but factory and to get them in and get them back out that what the center is about. donna hopes in the future that mold them by the centuries will emerge in australia modeled on the principles of what this is all right. because she knows this luncheon. if you won the lottery what would you do with this century. but by as much mind as i could to the 10 words. it's not
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