using r d w f. to washington from berlin up next we hear how a kangaroo sanctuary is dealing with the impacts of australia's devastating push fires i'm called aspen i'll have more news at the top of. blood. actually this meter just shows the slightest threat shows up. in the salon dot. com.

the smart way to win your goal. global auto and mobility show everyone w. . sarah and gary in what little is left of their dream a wildlife sanctuary. australia's bush fires raged through cold bargo population less than 800 leaving behind only ruins and claiming to lives and now how can the community rebuild. and she's come to love.

i need more. to animal rights activists spring sheepskins blankets and bags as more and more people drop by with donations of cash or goods from elephant. she used to be involved and i thought she was too traumatized good governance and quite. honest every day sarah telling asks herself too she should just give in. just 3 years ago she and her husband found a new home here and started a wildlife sanctuary for kangaroos. then the fires came.

friend rang me from canberra at lunch time on the day in siege in march is why i keep an eye on this fire so we kids and i don't. ever live in pe and it was downgraded from watch an act to advice at 1230 that night he rang me and said it's been upgraded to. emergency warning and it's 2 kilometers from hell i thought. it was all over and just an hour. or so all this was grey and all through here. with privet which is not a great. way to pick out 1000000000 body. and we found the body so i just. lost all their worldly possessions to the fire. even

their new car. and i really feel much about all that stuff but i don't know if it's because of the great attach to losing the wildlife you know and so everything else just disappears and insignificant the a kid. rock wallabies. australia's wildlife is as unique as it is endangered i mean 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 a history and a personality. it's not just the loss that. the loss of building and body and.

so many people get to go through life and for and they can see that before there is a crisis you know we found out emigrate 4 to a founder. carrie takes care of the little baby sienna who carries her around in a pouch like her mother would have if she hadn't died in the fire. a farmer brought the orphaned by just the other day it's hard to tell who's comforting home. and i mean. sarah's mother helps out wherever she can. today she's brought some native grasses for the you can group and. and. so i think my biggest part comes from my. coming up. screen and they offer me.

some girls here but. she you know would like it was just everything was just. gary 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. just so they. come in. this was still holding animals if they could both for us. you know that have injuries or they have. got respect for problems that are there just surfacing and starting to type it's all. they can't take in any

wild animals and now they have a pen but will they ever actually be able to start over. 50 i've had many many moments where i was and why i can't i can't quite get it you know i. live in a scary see what else we be doing this is who we are so i am looking a why doesn't change what's happened to us that doesn't bring our guys back to the dog doesn't bring the wild ones back to the dogs we still believe their whole life ha you know that whole and if so i guess that you may be able to feel. that. i guess by continuing on. the way. we can help others you know they still made us the situation hasn't changed. so i. did scott but we have to continue really. some 20 kilometers from sarah and gary sanctuary margot

cemetery has 2 fresh graves the dead are a father and the sun burnt 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. today seized were members of a large and respected family the son was a fall. or of 2 little children himself the villagers are trying to forget their grief if only for a brief moment. for 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 although 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 fill 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. cane grease or any macropod is that. as

a job we grow you make changes so. when we were not coming to care thank you all the way china. that their own. you know. 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 sienna needs her bottle 4 times a day. meanwhile gary feeds the few animals that did survive the fire. did you get some help from all the former we really heard from but it was a movie made about it. but. more will be about. that bomb. and 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 eldest animal but it's also hunted there 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 garry have always had their doubts they see the hunting methods as an outrage people come he said all around the world to say the striking were a few under the cover of documents there are people that go way out on a commercial hunts and kill them by the sales of these hundreds of thousands of people think i and i can kill the jollies by smashing their heads into the ground and there is the government sanctioned humane y. to kill and

a stingray joey i can go reach out for states to write so so we can resume listing rights and i saw the pit food industry in a strike is an absolute disgusting sprite's. now the government has stopped some of the kangaroo huns environmentalists are worried that their 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. just like gary many australians are putting food and drink out for the enemy. to see 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 water life and you know it's been

a it's 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 this point. little scieno won't be alone here much longer. since more and we have a. lot more families involved in it but i'm not a little wild about these cells down to less distance to form so i guess i'm friends in a band law that helps. to

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