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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  February 2, 2020 7:15am-7:31am CET

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endangered now scientists say they may have found a way genetically to bring 2 extinct species of glop those tortoises back to life conservationists have discovered 30 of their partial descendants hope to use the tortoises d.n.a. in a breeding program to revive the species that have died out. this is deja vu news from berlin up next is reporter saving the animals australia after the fires back spicer it's watch. the fog. carefully and don't miss the soon. to begin to.
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discover. the i. subscribe to documentary to. sarah and gary in what little is left of their dream a wildlife sanctuary. australia's bush fires raged through cargo populations less than 800 leaving behind only ruins and claiming 2 lives
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and now how can the community rebuild. the country less. than the most. 2 animal rights activists spring sheep skins blankets and bags as more and more people drop by with donations of cash or goods from everything. she used to pay a lot and i think she was too traumatized to take care and stationed quite yet almost every day sarah telling asks herself to should just give in and lean in just 3 years ago she and her husband have found
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a new home here and started a wildlife sanctuary for kangaroos are very lucky. then the fires came. friend rang me from canberra at lunch time on the day in seiji march 24 so we kept an eye on it at all even pay 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 here. it was all over in just an hour. so all this was graeme's all through here i think. with privet which is not a great. 1000000000 body. and we found the body side by side.
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they lost all their 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 great attach to the wildlife you know and so everything else just disappears into insignificance a kid. rock wallabies one bad 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. you know a lot why have to be so cruel. so that was their enclosure so this is where we are worries. that they had raised $35.00 kangaroos here by hand
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each one had a name a history and a personality. not just the loss of. the loss of 1000000000 body and. so many people get to go through life and for they can see that before there is a price. we founded 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 probably orphaned 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 really pan.
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and she'll stand. inside i think my biggest part comes from my boredom you know coming up. she must despair i mean a scream and i often make some grass. but. she you know would like it was just everything was just black. berry and sarah 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 shark or. younger screwed or so i think. just so they can see too much when they 1st come in. this was still holding both for. you know the head injuries or the. go respect 3 problems that are there
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a disservice in starting to type it's all so. 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 i want to know why i can't i can't quite get it you know i. get in a scarcity what else would be doing this is who we are so i. talking a why doesn't change what happened does it doesn't bring our cars back that it doesn't bring the ones back to the dogs we still live with their whole life ha you know their whole house so i guess that maybe even the field. but. i guess by continuing on. the way. we can help others you know 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 goes cemetery has to fresh grapes the dead are a father and a son burned to death while trying to save the historical wooden houses the community was once so proud of. the fires 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 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 the 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 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.
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came greece or any medical part is that i. as a joey gras is the new york changes so when we when i come into kid is thank you all the way china the actual milk that their own. meals. will pop up that 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 got some help from other people who thought it would really be her from me it was moving.
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but still a bit more. that's what it was bomb. then he sets off on his daily feeding grounds across the 900 hectares of land in the charred forest the animals want to 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 savings to guy can really get under the cover of documents there are people that go out on a commercial hunts and kill them by the sales of these hundreds of thousands the pixie i and i can kill the joey use by smashing their heads into the
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ground i and that is the government sanctioned. humane why she kill and a stingray joey i can go reach out so she stays dry so we can raise and we stand right now so the pit food industry in a strike is an absolutely disgusting sprite's. now the government has stopped some of the kangaroo hunts environmentalists are worried that the population might never fully recover from the bushfires. years will pass before gary and sarah expect to see a whole mob of kangaroos returned here but the disaster has sent australia a wake up call campaigns are collecting donations for the continent's well planned from far and wide. and just like gary many australians are putting food and drink out for the enemy. to see
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the outpouring of love and support that we've had. i guess gives us. gives us fact that people still care about the future of our ward life and 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 this point. little scieno won't be alone here much longer. marling have. a lot more in. it but another one of the songs. to come to us is the ones before self i guess become friends going to bring along all of.
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