for the danger is great to see. which path. was the last beethoven's 9th symphony for the more it starts to simmer going on t.w. . december 29 teams last radians bushfires all spreading across bigger and biggest

waves are planned for wildlife researcher kelly it is becoming clear just how perilous the situation is. she decides to evacuate the 12 koala bears but she has been studying for years before the flames reach the blue mountains it is the 1st time that she has been forced to take this kind of action. you know the only. one. with a small group of experts on volunteers she manages to save a small but still significant number of koalas their survival is simple. isn't for

the conservation of the species. hundreds of thousands of other animals. in immediate danger. area. where they're at yeah yeah. yeah. yeah yeah so.

one month after the evacuation of the koala bass we meet up with kelly again on the edge of the national park where she wants. she's still unable to visit the most heavily burned area for safety reasons. there k. then blazes was still raging in 2 australian states and had already destroyed 80 percent of the blue mountains national park the park is part of a unesco world heritage area and home to the country's most genetically diverse population of koalas. pretty heartbreaking to say especially once you get to know

koalas you know we give them names who go volunteers that come out to help track them where we had to we were really lucky that we got in and got some out before the fires that had radio collars on them and so all but 2 we've got one koala on the on burnt side we hope is still here and then one that we had to lay down in the area he was too far and it would be an all day just to get one koala and we got 4 or 5 that day so we really came to get it and see how he's doing but knowing there's so many through here and now it's such an important population that's nationally significant it's yet been utterly heartbreaking to watch it happen. the research is real mission is to devise strategies to help protect the species from possible extinction but instead she finds herself giving 1st aid to animals that have escaped the flames. yeah. down a bit i think what's happening is that working can stations with water and food are

now essential for the dehydrated injured marsupial survival spin isn't it. we can also put a rope on the bottom to guide it as it goes up. when i'm going to check. any. more territory. the colors come off. did i really want to hear. that ferrari.

we had a story of hope here in the mountains were finding a lot of koalas where we didn't expect there were young and growing populations and their own in in a protected area that's protected from habitat loss and now we've lost 4 for the 5 populations that we've been studying have been impacted by. killing came to us i think it was around the 23rd of december. it was the day the township of the open which is about a 15 minute draw from he was impacted by severe fog conditions they lost houses the conditions were terrible. she was found by the far far is at about midnight in the area of force that had been completely burnt out the amazing thing about her is

that coming out of that area she has not been. morgan film part has been working closely with kelly lead for years he has even named one of the bands in his galley in how ana carried a koala has recovered from the problems caused by smoke inhalation bans both kelly and her companion marine are suffering from a bacterial infection that focal whiners can end in death it's a real privilege to have these animals come in and stay with us it's a lot of stress as a carer because you want to help everyone that you can unfortunately we can't always help these animals to the point that they can be released sometimes we have to injured all that to sick obviously the best part of doing this is that you get to let them go and take them back where they should be because this isn't where they should be back out in the wall is where those guys should be to go out and make more more koalas. you know he's eons of looking after wild animals

morgan has never had so much to do one of the main challenges is finding the right eucalyptus leaves for them to eat. he says he is distraught and disappointed by the way on strategy and politicians have failed to acknowledge the dangers of climate change for so many years far as not new is tried by any stretch but certainly the skyll and the intensity of the far as that we're saying now is something i don't think any of us have signed the tractors will say the star has always had 4 hours and that an arguably that's correct but not like this it's by the warming just not used to getting a scale of animals that we've got coming in right now as a result of these far as that's a national trend or international tragedy and these animals don't just belong to us it's trying to belong to the world. and just the sky and the loss is

an imagined will. not have they're going to bounce back and it's not obviously it's not just the koalas it's always try and wildlife affected here and the bush as well . the bush fires raged for 240 days destroying more than 12000000 hectares of bush and releasing 400000000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the. wildfires are a seasonal ignorance in australia global warming has extended those seasons and made the blazes more severe. 3 years australia has been experiencing extremely mountain and dry summers. 1000000000 animals are estimated to

have died in last summer's mines according to experts it's a figure that has shocked the world. it was one of the most destructive environmental catastrophes of our times. an army of volunteers vets and scientists joined together to help in an incredible act of solidarity. the.

australia was caught unprepared and was confronted with its own vulnerability it became apparent that it did not have enough resources and effective strategies to protect its unique ecosystems the government has listed 113 native species that needed emergency intervention to ensure that survival after the devastating fires. could come get a little. bit i've. never called him a know we're going to give us your animals came to us than expected because of that many died in the flames or had to be put to sleep because they couldn't be saved

but are you. going to get him a living going to look at that we treat our data most with birds happen if you put it up if we consider whether treatment is worthwhile or not and unfortunately which . many were not to be safe. we decided to put to sleep animals with more than 20 percent burns mistreatment in those cases has little chance of success or is very protracted. there may be a place at an early sea animals have inbuilt behavior to protect themselves in fires they follow nature's lessons in the event of danger or that the one bats generally hide under ground and koalas climb up trees higher and higher with the becoming normal fires usually burn in the middle section and travel rapidly developing out of you know you can look just trees are full of oil and the fire moves on and the treetops remain intact and when the creatures are badly affected by smoke inhalation they can survive but this year the fires were so ferocious that the trees burned in their entirety of all the people in the koalas were roasted

alive in the treetops on the. italian vat lorenzo cranston is director of the university of sydney's avian reptile and exotic pet hospital which provides canta wildlife. he's one of the few people able to treat the little researched koalas today he is looking after a fonzie a koala who was found catching on to a tree in a river although he has no obvious severe injuries the creature still isn't back on its feet. with your terrible. we're going to take some of a cerebral spinal fluid and send it to a lab for testing. we want to know whether it contains inflammatory cells or bacteria which would cause and satellite us or meningitis if you know where because i'm a case we will of course have to treat the animal to like a bit of a bit of it. at least the bushfires have given scientists an

opportunity to gather useful data and the global headlines have forced the all foreigners to provide funds to help save wildlife. silicosis if everything goes well but it will hopefully develop new strategies now that we can use to help australian wildlife in future fires on its own with the chinese up not just to save animals directly but also for example by issuing guidelines to prevent those kinds of fires every year and to know how to respond when the fires become threatening that's just as important as the treatment of the animals themselves because prevention is better than a cure but any of them in your head that. have been living in sydney's taronga zoo since their evacuation plan they are patiently awaiting their return to the wild. they're feeling a lot better and while a climate eyes and no longer dehydrated. think you.

there we've just gone through and removed a few of their branches that were fed out yesterday and what that does they are the lucky ones and they are now in good hands nick performance has been looking after. spent 20 years now but even so particular responsibility in this situation 1st few days no doubt you know there was some settling in stress that koalas enjoyed they were captured from very tall trees in the wall and put into little carry crates and then transported a few hours by car so all of that was foreign to them so of course they were exhibiting some stress what we've seen in those few weeks that have unfolded since is that they're quite comfortable animals and now we've changed our husbandry practices to be is mainly disturbing and so we only come here and sit on of the day so the animals become accustomed to that we're seeing them demonstrate normal behavior is any good genetic population that we can hold on to is just being made

so much more vital. at least 8000 co on those dying in the state of new south wales party due sounds to mated that the country's entire population of the creatures has been decimated. their numbers were already in decline before the bushfires because of endemic disease the destruction of their habitats by uncontrolled logging and illegal wildlife trafficking. as a species was in their millions european settlement so we're talking only just over 200 years and now way seeing such a huge population acquired that we're now within estimates of 830-0000 now obviously significantly less than that due to the recent fires so when you consider such a small amount to what otherwise they have that could occupy they are they are in dire straits like there are species in the climate and certainly you know worthy is

being listed as a threatened species it's taken a very catastrophic event log these large fires for people to actually realise the situation that i was watching. it's a little bit assuaging. after months of finance the deluge of rainfall not followed only partial relief. the worst france in 3 decades brought new problems to the beleaguered country. where the events of these kind could become the new normal. in quick succession australia found itself going from one extreme to another for

signs of an ecosystem that has been thrown off balance. which could recover but only sternly. in the midst of such janson destruction the sun signs of life and she knew how. right. they were doing a couple different things basically this is to inform us of putting our koalas back the ones we took at that to taronga so we're trying to work out if we need to put them back in the un burnside or if we can put them back in this low intensity band section where we got them from so they can be might be bouncing back so i will be

going behind doing scat surveys and looking at how many sketches we find in the different quality vegetation and you guys have a during a search and rescue lion looking out for koalas and if we find fresh scat we'll call you in to help go spotting for the actual koala that has the. in the pink and so i would just have to stay in a tight group today to announce that rescue lines i was at radio safety g.p.s. device well so it is that they know that it has been 3 months since the coal miners were evacuated from the blue mountains and now it is possible for kelly to set forth again in certain areas of the national long. this conference in case i get up at the end of this call smudge is one of the dogs on the frontline of the koala search and rescue mission he can detect by smell things that we cannot see and that makes him indispensable worth so much if not.

more. so he's finding some really small fragments lately. that you know they have one say that there are a fairly barry white year old dried there so that's half a dried quality that is also an old one so probably pray fire break the try try. to live the life. of. steve's yeah that one good joke it could. get him for a smudge. kid and that old sue little bit of green in there.

so. maybe waco too. we haven't. heard since the right yeah more recent and so here we've got surviving koalas so it he's finding older deposits at this site where we know those quotes have been through more recently so probably in a week or 2 so it indicates there's surviving animals here which is great i k moving. the discovery of the fresh droppings motivates the volunteers to comb the bush for commons. the excursion is also intended to ourselves whether there is enough only age to nourish the animals in the wild all this information helps the researchers to map the scorched zone and compare the data with capital before the bushfires it helps them gain a clearer picture of the blazers impact. it's hard to determine how many animals

remain in the area but unless 100 to action is taken the beloved koala could disappear by the year 2050. their 3rd. world. war. or 3rd and forever. well spotted. this hidden by the canopy out there. in the world. yeah he's got a little dot mark on the chest there. so you can say he's a male and generally looks alright now is in good condition no signs of any injuries. so we will leave him in peace. healthy look and go out to have a straight up. so this is what we call in and call it go on tags so it's it's

a new color one we haven't seen before because if we took them mostly out before the 5 and got 2 animals in here that do have tags on at the moment so most of the ones we're going to find will be new we normally when we radio track we do find new animals every now and then because we know there's a pretty good population in here but we would also expect some might have moved out from the fire front up into this area as well so you know whether this is a resident or a koala that's moved in we are not sure. so kelly this is just the beginning of a painstaking repopulation process one requiring a lot of time and a lot of energy got to get probably one more wake of imagery satellite imagery to look at chlorophyll content and just check we have i've got exact locations of where we took them from so we can see if that where we took them from is a good golly that that's good moisture content and good kind of a name for them and in that case of put them straight back so they got them from for some of them we might choose to put them if they came from really that hit

patch where much is to put them back on the other side the right nearby so it's just coming down to those details now exactly when to put them back 2 months after our 1st visit we meet morgan again it has stopped raining the bushfires have been extinguished and walk is proceeding so the stuff is already as you feel it is you know has a 3rd koala in his calf. when you took him in 7 weeks ago he was a death's door but the animal has recovered quickly and is now ready to be released into the wild again unlike kelly and marie who we met back in january. think it's starting to wane and then something happened when the girls had some recent issues with skin problems through what we think is an infestation of ticks that the had after all the right events that happened on our way there at the correlated with this explosion of pigs. neither of them are sick comedia

and the both very well they're getting also white little moraine here has gained a key ally in the last sort of 4 weeks and the other one's going about half if you like that they're putting on a little while and otherwise they'd be 3 were already today relates to morgan has to capture them daily and disinfect bank cage every 3 days to find batik infestation but he's not letting that get in town returning the koalas to the habitat is a process that new. aids patients and sound preparation. part of the protocol is the quality get any tag an h d f when recalled the color of the tag and the number and they also get a mark right you inserted. in the shoulder blood and that then and isles off that if this animal gets sick again or gets injured and comes into chaos then we know who she is and medical history.

so i will be looking at a lace another 4 weeks in cade to treat this skin condition now and that's providing it responds to the treatment that we're giving. well it's ok i'm going to catch it i it's all right. now. it's faded. but with animals like this unexpected things can happen and that sort of blows out in the tom of these animals dying careful and you cannot be tied and fatigued but you've got to you know he just wants to commit to it you've got to keep going until the job's free. and the our use of the wound up on him. has become a symbol of both global feelings and.

did his colleagues and squalor that you've been a surgeon's been trumpeting for a few months now. i like taking a bet the right way we courted from the. colonies return home without incident and she remains completely oblivious to her significance to research is struggling to save her species. the emergence of covert

19 rushes the other koalas to be released sooner than expected. this shows how connected on story years to thoughts of our environment. and environment for which we are responsible. so i think again that's the way this that nobody said the movement and we certainly haven't we obviously need biodiversity 70 percent of our medicines come from nature in a way highly dependent on it whether we realize it or not so i'm hoping that the tide changes and we do it all before it really impacts us more than it has i mean this was a big impact for astray and most people were affected by the pfizer knew someone who was affected by the fire to say now's a good time to change that and i think a lot of us will be pushing for that. to.

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