tv Reporter Deutsche Welle February 2, 2020 11:15am-11:31am CET
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that's a god too even after our year is over who will profit from all the new infrastructure and renovations or yeah it was good because the it's a 3 acre beckons with mediterranean markets lots of art and thriving cafe culture residents hope that soon many will be singing its praises. this is due to viewed us from berlin up next our show reporter looks at how with us trillion wildlife sanctuary is coping in the aftermath of devastating bushfires spicer thanks for such. a varied and david and this is climate change sex. happiness increase book. this is the book for your. children smarter birth free books on.
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climate change. sustainability. environmental projects. globalization effect biodiversity species conservation exploitation of ebola the. human rights displacement. the global economy to a local art. global 3000. sarah and gary in what little is left of their dream a wildlife sanctuary. australia's bush fires raged turco bargo population of less than $800.00 leaving behind only ruins and claiming 2 lives. and now how can the community rebuild.
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and he's come to learn. that he more than. 2 animal rights activists bring sheepskins blankets and bags as more and more people drop by with donations of cash or goods from elephant. she used to pay a lot and i felt she was too traumatized kid governance and quite yet almost every day sarah telling asks herself too 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 very lucky. then the fires came. friend rang me from camera at lunch time on the day in seiji mark just wanted to put on these for us so we kids and i don't. have a live in 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. with privet which is not a great. big 1000000000 body. and we found the body. and.
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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 attached to losing the wildlife you know and so everything else just disappears into insignificance. 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 are 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. not just the loss of the. loss of. so many people get to go through life before they can do that before they did it twice . we found it emigrate for 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 orphan joey 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 pen.
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and so you. can so i think my biggest part comes from my daughter. coming up to her and. she must despair i mean it's green and i often make you some grass. but. she you know when 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. course who. gets screwed. just so they can't see too much when they 1st come in. we're still holding the ball for us. you know that for the injuries all of us got respect through problems that are
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nailed to surfacing and 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. i've had many many moments where almost you know why can't i can't quite get it you know i'm. given a scarcity what else would be doing this is who we are so i. walking a why doesn't china and what's happened to us it doesn't bring out on spec the dog doesn't bring the wild ones back to the dogs we still live with that whole idea of how you know that whole and also i guess that maybe even a few. thoughts. i guess by continuing on. the way. we can help others you know i still wonder if the situation has a challenge. so i. did scott but we have to continue really.
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some 20 kilometers from sara and gary sanctuary parco cemetery has 2 fresh graves 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. if. 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. for 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 try. 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 and new south wales. fires kept spreading and the caustic smoke covered the region that 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 the government had promised to send in the military to do just that and. 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 metropolitan is that i. as a joey grows think you make changes so. when we're not coming to kids thank you all the way china. that they're on. the wheel. 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. did you get some help from all the people are you really hear from because it was moving.
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but still a bit more. about. that's what that's all right. then he sets off on his daily feeding grounds across the 900 hectares of land in the charred forest the animals one find anything else to eat or drink the kangaroo may be australia's her eldest 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 garry have always had their doubts they see the hunting methods as an outrage people come here from all around the world to save the striking reef 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 pixie i and i can kill the jollies by smashing the heads into the
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ground and there is the government sanctioned humane why to kill and a stingray joey i can't gory joe it's just a sting right so so we can raise interest in brighton i saw 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 hunts environmentalist's are worried that their population might never fully recover from the bushfires. years will pass before gary and sarah 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 wealth life from far and wide. and just like gary many australians are putting food and drink out for the enemy. to see the
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outpouring of love and support that we've had. i guess gives us. gives us fight that people still care about the future over a wildlife and you know it's been a traumatic heartbreaking. and soul destroying really journey and. to say the outpouring of love that we have heads i guess is really kicked is going to these point. little sienna won't be alone here much longer. so it's more and we have a. lot more things using bing. but i'm not a little one of these songs. to put to us just the ones before so well i guess some friends are going to bring along that obviously.
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