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the smart way to get one. blogger with mobility everywhere w. . the body. sarah and gary and what little is left of their dream a wildlife sanctuary. australia's bush fires raged through cold bargo population of less than 800 leaving behind only ruins and claiming 2 lives. and now how can the community rebuild. and she's
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come to us. and even more. to animal rights activists bring sheepskins blankets and bags as more and more people drop by with donations of cash for goods confirm everything. she used to pay a lot and i think she was too traumatized at government expense and quite yet almost every day sarah telling asks herself to she should just give in and. just 3 years ago she and her husband have found a new home here and started
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a wildlife sanctuary for kangaroos are very lucky. then the fires came. friend rang me from canberra at lunch time on the day in cd march 22nd on this fall i saw a kitten on it at all even pay and it was downgraded from watch an act to advice at 1230 that night he rang me in said it's been upgraded to. emergency warning and it's 2 kilometers from the tail. it was all over in just an hour. so all this was graeme's all through here think. it was prove it which is not a great. 1000000000 body. body so i just got here. they lost all their
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worldly possessions to the fire. even their new car. and i really feel much about that stuff but i don't know if it's because of the grace attached to the wildlife you know everything else just disappears into insignificance kid. rock wallaby. australia's wildlife is as unique as it is endangered even in such a vast land agriculture and unchecked land use are encroaching on their habitats now the wildfires have exacerbated the situation and. you know a lot why have to be so cruel. so that was their enclosure so this is where we. had they had raised $35.00 kangaroos here by hand each one had a name
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a history and a personality. it's not just the loss of the. loss of. so many people get to go through life and find they can do that before there is a price. we found it emigrate for to a founder. carrie takes care of the little baby sienna she carries her around in a pouch like her mother would have if she hadn't died in the fire. a farmer brought the by just the other day it's hard to tell who's comforting home. sarah's mother helps out wherever she can. today she's brought some native grasses for the you can group pan.
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and tristan chase. a concise i think my biggest part comes from my board you know coming up. she must despair i mean it's green and they offer me. some grass. but. she you know would like it was just everything was just black. berry and sara are slowly getting back on their feet provisionally for now they're living in a camper right next to the pen. it's a start. up some. younger screwed. just so they can't see too much when they 1st come in. this was still holding out of the force. you know the head injuries or the. got respect through
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problems that are there to surfacing and starting to type with. they can't take in any wild animals until they have a pen but will they ever actually be able to start over and. i've had many many moments where almost no why i can't i can't quite get it you know. that in a scary see what else we'd be doing this is who we are so i. walking a why doesn't change what happened to us it doesn't bring our guys back but of joy doesn't bring the ones back to the dark we still live with their whole life ha you know that whole when else so i guess that maybe even the feeling. but. i guess by continuing on. the way. we can help others and i still made the situation as a challenge. so i. did scott but we have to katie really. some
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20 kilometers from sarah and gary sanctuary cargoes cemetery has 2 fresh graves the dead are a father and son burned to death while trying to save the historical wooden houses the community was once so proud of. the fire has reached the village on new year's eve since then the farmers left homeless have taken shelter on a parking lot next door the area's one hotel is hosting its 1st gathering since the inferno a memorial service. the 2 to ceased were members of a large and respected family the son was a father of 2 little children himself the villagers are trying to forget their grief if only for a brief moment. for
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weeks the sounds of water bombers overhead and sirens were heard every day in new south wales. new fires kept spreading and a caustic smoke covered the region heavy rainfall that followed brought only temporary relief and even so new grass is growing and the surviving cattle wastes no time getting down to it nobody has been here to clear away the wreckage yet all of the government had promised to send in the military to do just that. electricity and water have been shut off for weeks. sarah and gary must get by without they feel their canisters for themselves and for their animals. they've been working to aid the wildlife here for some 10 years learning much of what they know now about kangaroos along the way.
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came greece or any met report is that. as the cherry gras is the new york changes so we went we're not coming to kid it's like you know the way china. that they're on. the rio. sometimes through the campers thin walls they can hear their joey cry out she'll be needing lots of warmth and love for the next year or so and c.n.n. needs her bottle 4 times a day. meanwhile gary feeds the few animals that did survive the fire. and if you go on holiday for more than 5 it was really her from being a local community. but all of them or all without.
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form. then he sets off on his daily feeding grounds across the 900 hectares of land in the charred forest the animals won't find anything else to eat or drink the kangaroo may be australia's her relic animal but it's also hunted the leather and meat are in demand abroad especially in china most of the meat is used for dog food the authorities say the kangaroo population has to be checked otherwise it would explode but animal rights activists like sarah and kerry have always had their doubts they see the hunting methods as an outrage people come he says all around the world savings to go i can worry if under the cover of documents there are people that go way out on a commercial hunt and kill them by the sales of these hundreds of thousands of hits they i and i can kill the jollies by smashing the heads into the ground
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and there is the government sanctioned humane why to kill and a stingray joey or a kangaroo joe it's just a sting right so so we can raise and we stand right there so the pit food industry in a strike is an ex so willing to discuss sting describes. now the government has stopped some of the kangaroo hunters environmentalists are worried that the population might never fully recover from the bushfires. years will pass before gary and sara expect to see a whole mob of kangaroos returned but the disaster has sent australia a wake up call campaigns are collecting donations for the continent's well clive from far and wide. and just like gary many australians are putting food and drink out for the enemies. to see
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the outpouring of love and support that we've had. i guess gives us. this fight that people still care about the future of our wildlife and yes it's been a traumatic heartbreaking. soul destroying really journey and. to say the outpouring of love that we have heads i guess is really kicked is going to disappoint. little scieno won't be alone here much longer. so it's more and we have. more i will lose a body. but in that of being a wife that these songs have to come to us he still wants to but for now i guess i'm friends in a family law office. he
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