More than 6 months the strain has the. Millions of head to his have been schools. Thousands of clothes destroyed and dozens of lives lost. But beyond the human tragedy is the wildlife catastrophe of staggering proportions the corpses littering the ground nothing could have prepared me for scale is. It just copied described more than a 1000000000 animals have been killed some feces teetering on the brink without bringing about a good old saw on the edge of this could be the next precious to gods things to destroy. One on one east investigates a strenuous wildlife emergency. Off the Southern Coast of australia is a natural wonder. Kangaroo island is famous for its beautiful landscapes and unique wildlife. But now its unrecognizable when we saw all of us here can go a while and its pretty clear straight away that it was bad these scenes evan quarter me. Hes come to the island with one mission to save as many animals as he can. Today hes heading to an area where until recently koalas thrived. By heading out towards the Flinders Chase National Park which was one of the 1st areas to be hit by fire on the island and its own. Extremely confronting the amount of deaths i mean. For every every why when we bring in were seeing hundreds that the died in the fires. Now were seeing dozens and dozens as well that have you know died of dehydration or starvation since. As we drive further. And a grisly scene. Gets me every single time this. Koalas but mostly wallabies probably about. 550 of them just old but you can see as they have escaped the forest that none of them made it there was just no way to run this whole place was just. Its excessively traumatic but. Evans with a team from Humane Society international including Disaster Response specialist kelly donovan. And shes already spotted something stunning joey sitting there for her but for a kind of just looking at the world and. It looks like its going to be a fairly easy pick up and thats the thing with the west they are the easy way out of. The fact that she can just walk up to that that would never happen in the wild to say these are wild animals. So here we go. The 1st joy of the day. Kangaroo island is the only place in a stroller with a koala population is free of disease. I dont know while theyre endangered on the mainland here in numbers have soared even prompting cools for a color but now 80 percent of the habitat hes gone. This is a water station that we set up. So were going to check the cameras on that there are so close up in the trees around here so we can just move cautiously in quietly well check it out and see if anything is the station overnight. So i dont have anything to eat out here but if were going to least get them some something to drink then they might be able to last a few more days and that gives us a chance to come out with hopefully pick them up and so if the. Old guys that are. Being blown around the city just show you that youre going up and so these ones back in the b. Even though they seem ok you conditions you know we just know that looking around through these forests theres nothing for them to a 4 kilometers theres no way that theyre going to be able to survive in the long term. Theres a quality. Right at the base of the tree so hes got this tree and all went up on. Somethings been coming down and have a look at that one. That being used and thats that just sitting right out it thats really warming thats our 1st evidence we have these chemical saudia so thats good we know that theyre doing the job. So for small. We move on through the charred forest so as you can see here just come across the bodies of the dead mother and its young joey theyve died together and they sometimes find. Eucalypts a sorry bowl of toil in terms of the oil that they have in them so we would have just it would have just been like an explosion of 31. 00 and you. Just would have been devastating. In the distance kelly spots a koala moving along the ground. So he just sat so. Were going to try these little picnic sound. Songs or stay behind one of. Those soft. Kelly wants to rush to school while out to a bit for help. Spend a very small percentage of time on the ground so the fact that we find the around and are approachable shows that there is an issue happening thats probably hydration and lack of interest and. On the way back to the calm she spots another one. All. Just. To close one spot so. At. Least. Its. A little bit better. And this is supposed to be a peak tourism season on kangaroo. But instead of sightseeing is flying new this soldiers in 580. 5 spotted by lightning have raged through the dense pushed land seems. Even causing fire tornadoes. Ok oh oh oh oh. Oh oh ok now youre going over and you cant get out of. The car some locals try to protect their properties. But dozens of homes were lost and 2 people died. Almost half of Kangaroo Island has been braised. About 2100 square kilometers and this is whats left of them just Chase National park the scorched landscape have been home to a diverse range of native wildlife many of which found nowhere else. To cope with the number of seek and injured on a move to volunteers have set up a clinic at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Sanctuary kelly and evan of bringing in their best. And i mean the one among the volunteers is dr Peter Hutchison just give a little bit of. Hes been caring for animals for more than 30 years my own so we dont need to check for care. Were quite. So it was probably a little bit hot dry did a little bit on the why. Hes in pretty good shape and artfully if we can just human bit of hard try to. Give him a cane hopefully hell be running around the nikon i will go for this one this is ray where normally finding lots of buttons on the fate that we need to treat we need to give them time relief and he bought ix. Cases like this one on an operating table near blind. As much as the eye looked quite bad husayn a lot of these coming lot and theyve healed squatting on slowly and. A lot of the time. In one to 2 weeks theyre almost healed. So this is the microchip that this is how we identify them and this is were just going to put it in here and otherwise you end up with the wrong one getting the wrong track from an. Early call i dont have a hard call to head well this is the one i was see. That means theres a 160. 00 is or so if it is and i say i had about i would imagine more than 300. 00 you look at the as just slightly saying just enough to bad. All eyes are on. The phone on. Just before he says thats looking good. So im hes got a little been on the fort this one a guy and thats not something we need to treat at this stage and looking good. With fame. Like this man real player so vitally so were checking for joey he did have a job. Because the tape is quite in la. So unfortunately with the fog and the stress and the dry sion shes dropped the jawi im fortunate that survival mechanism with them. That if theres any stress in their law. They will just drop the dry wood so its sad. Unfortunately its a bog and making reason for them. Has volunteered to help in full bushfire in the urgencies over the last 5 years. Its all black swan isnt like that but he says he hasnt seen anything quite like this for a while youre so welcome for the other schools that will require that this is a lot harder because its a very the injuries seem to be much worse than what im saying in the past. And this certainly a lot more dead while bar families. Dealing with the births number of dead on a move is taking a heavy toll on frontline both in t. V. It is an ecologist usually spends more time writing about threats and wildlife than working in the field. Its been a bit surprising to me i feel pretty resilient person but the mental impact has been. Dead since. The things ive been saying out here have been giving me not me is just the past is that theyve died thats particularly haunting the stench of death. Nothing could have prepared me for it i knew there were bad animals here but the scale is. It to. Copy described. There im a im a wildlife lover its just you know thats the reason i do what i do it breaks my heart to see the agony that is going on out here its been its been extremely stressful wage. While the plight of the stray is koalas and kangaroos has been attracting the worlds attention conservationists are rushing to rescue other lesser known animals which are at risk of extinction. The wildlife loss has come into waves the 1st of the animals that died in the fires and the 2nd is playing out right now as those that survived battle it out over whatever food is left its also become a Hunting Ground with the cover provided by trees and foliage now gone leaving little protection from predators. Life. Im meeting with wildlife ecologist pat hudgens hes hoping one of the worlds most vulnerable species the Kangaroo Island down not. You know about 200 meters away probably from an australian is probably breast animal that was going to the. Pats been studying the small mouth lacma superego for more than 5 means so the kangaroo and its part of the doesnt your own family which has got a whole lot of different species within it has money and target wasnt was was related to those guys on the tasmanian devil and western qualls on tiger all and theyre the only knights of can have or not have kind of response so if you know. That that lives within this within this habitat. They were thought to be less than 500. 00 of them before the finest but nearly all of the habitat has been destroyed by a flood. Its on recognisable look if you were here a month ago before the far as you would be pushing through big vegetation these banks is you know why are you here so you know we wouldve been kind of pushing through like this and getting scratched and yeah and so its a lot fuller a little i dont know pathways sort of here so its totally under the nose of the island. But i mean its we are lucky to have some of these little tiny little patches of aid and i guess youd say right now the only done you know about living in that little patch so i actually really could be the last dots that would have been gone. Theres good news we have done out here at last not so you can see here on the way if you look there on that rock. Thats the little shell of the it was amazing to think that just a few hours ago there was a kangaroo on the right there just makes you work or at and yeah thats right you know its time Time Critical now thats for sure no action is too small in pats bid to save this local species every day he tosses meal worms into the area for donna to eat its not unrealistic to think that were you know monitoring the extinction of an animal thats. Documented in real time yeah something on never thought i would be doing in my career thats for sure and yeah we discover where bloody hard to make it not believe. Its not going to be easy the final years may have passed but the Kangaroo Island donna is still under threat. And is going to a very large feral cat population right now everythings coming into this very small patches of habitat and its like a you know kind of like a war zone really like everyones fighting for survival and the feral cats you know a hollywood volved predator is an astrologer in my circles trying animals have an evolved ever with a predator quite like it so if you have a small animal like a don are coming up against Something Like a cat. You know its its a disaster waiting to happen. Patz has set up 26. 00 cat traps around this critical fight including something a little high tech us or to see now weve got this and one of the felix growing traps which is a new technology that were traveling so i will. See how its gone. Felix uses a special array of cameras and motion sensors to accurately detect when a feral cat is walking const. And when it does it will fire out some toxin on to the back on quarter of the cat in the cat being a cat will instinctively ground itself so even if it was just water on the cats back the cat has to clean itself inside the cat ingests a toxic dies of poison and then will go off and on many ecologists like cats believe its one of the more humane ways to cull feral cats so to some a look here on this us been see whats happened i know. I said he would. So thats cat lost. And hasnt been hit with the top of that cat has been hit so we have you know taken out another cat so thats its actually the best easily kind of hype for a lot of people will be wondering why someone who blah blah blah blah cultivation over 3 point killing i will. Tell us why well people packed yeah official i mean look way way no through Extensive Research in australia the feral cats you know one of the case running processes to our native species cats are introduced to australia theyve been here for a couple of centuries like about 200 years. Thats a great pets. In their normal environment but here in australia where i dont belong you know there are cats and westing for a night of animals and we owe it to those native species to help them as much as we turn and remove the predation pressure while we can. How much damage can one. Thank. You one cat in one nor could take out the whole population that weve that we turn to know about the rank of course. Thank you no but yeah exactly i mean you know what you know initially the you know the fire has been a big catalyst but the cat. Following up is potentially the thing to finish off the species so you can bond these 2 big threatening processes. Could could take it out for sure all of like roughly 10 when the stakes are these high catch traps and going to be enough to save these critically endangered mammals so patches mapping out a fence to keep feral cat sounds whereas you get to a managed to get a pretty striking one from that he brought through and thats the critical vegetation that weve got that out still surviving in there because if we waited those guys probably wouldnt be here so were just going to get the get the species through the next couple of weeks until we get the fence up and then well be able to sleep sleep a little bit easier. Back across the island at the clinic does it have their hands full. This is where the one i saw his picture is checking on the koalas as an end kelly protein the day before to have a look at you. Know this little one here kind little bit sean as we can say but you know eyes that look in on. Those pores quite well i was trying to use this as a tree in the past so a grip in the back legs on the beisel vent and thats what qualities do that want to always hold on to something she doesnt want to be with a settlement. But it does look like shes been a thin and drinkin. Not too concerned at this point what all 4 whole lot of them set up and they would all fall down so that will be if shes got any white and continues to face and drink over the next 48 hours and then we would be put in there in the relay spend. With some of the fame ause and then hopefully in a couple of weeks tom will start looking for areas around Kangaroo Island we can then release them out into the wall. So we will have a check on them mile that you picked up yesterday i. T 106. Just not this one where you. Thought you might be up to tracy. And i. And we all abanet. Guy and odds are looking goed really good if theyve caught on the tray that means theyre feeling this is my new harm this is where i want to live so he could just think of a horn thank yeah yet theyre my back and we want them to actually have a little bit of thought. If i dont have some followers and you know i accept it really read it slowly especially being a wild animal we be concerned about the scale. So they said its a real critical patches that we need to protect meanwhile pat has a new ally in his quest to save the Kangaroo Island sternness professional feral cat Chapa Mari Schofield so had her here and found the camera traps murrays with the astray in wild last conservancy a group dedicated to protecting native animals from introduced species which were very small been tough the longer it was going to wally with a little bean. All law on the dollar log on. This is running along the other side of the fence then he catches me try trying to work out how to get 3. Its great news proof that the species has survived another night. But theres also been a more human this discovery found another cat we havent seen him before looks like a female cat and got lots of images of her actually walking past a camera and she is calling a sock see shes been left foot is what. Its really important when you find cat sitting here that we identify how many there are and hes a spit of the onion so you can actually not find my engine here or our mari so really kind of going in. On the movements to try to try to hunt her down you want to get trapped in failure stop and get me. Yeah im going to wake to go before we can get this fenced so. Every not its critical for the little guys right now. Not pressure and i pressure. Mari gets to play a couple different models who. They called capital thats what we call the stall a trap. Because its like a vault so they get locked in the. Cats but. Im killing the dugout. Maris trying hodge not to fixate on his latest obsession finding socks he jumped on the bed knowing what i looked like good that you get another cat will befall him they get another one all thats not him and he still out there that sometimes bad now with a look over right away yeah yeah because you know i havent got him yet or havent got it. But within just a few days sucks hes being caught. With the help of the traps and fences pats hopes that the Kangaroo Island down offs will not only some 5 the fire seasons devastation but will try. Meanwhile evans time on Kangaroo Island has come to an end for now. In spain one of the best and most devastating experiences of my life i. Cant wait to get back here and see how this place bounces back. 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