Cost on aljazeera. For more than 6 months the strain the. Millions of head to his have been schools. Thousands of planes destroyed and dozens of lives lost. But beyond the human tragedy is the catastrophe of staggering proportions this pope says littering the ground nothing could have prepared me for the scale is. It just concrete described. More than a 1000000000 animals have been killed the firm face seems teetering on the brink without going to medical its on the edge this could be the next patients to go extinct stood astride a. One on one east investigates a strenuous wildlife in the agencys. Off the Southern Coast of australia is a natural wonder. Kangaroo island is famous for its beautiful landscapes and you need quad life. But now its unrecognisable where we saw all of us here Kangaroo Island and its pretty clear straight away that it was bad the seas 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 ChaseNational Park which was one of the 1st areas to be hit by fire on the island and so. Its 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 if you know died of dehydration or starvation since. As we drive further and a grisly scene. Gets me every single time the. Koalas but mostly wallabies probably about. 550 of them just told that 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. 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 easy they are to get. 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 dizzy. Snow while theyre endangered on the mainland here in numbers have soared even prompting cools for a color but now 80 percent of the habitat is gone and this is the 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. They 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. Hopefully pick them up and save them. A little bad. Being blown around so it was to show you that theyre going up there so these ones they can there be. Even though they seemed ok you condition and now 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 and. So things been coming down and have a look at that one 0 well that being used and thats that just sitting right out it thats really warming thats our 1st evidence we have these chemical apps out here so thats good we know that theyre doing the job. So the small we move on through the charge forest so 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 31. 00 and. Just would have been devastating. In the distance kelly spoke the koala moving along the ground. So he just sat so. Were going try the basement pickwick found. Songs are stable and one of. Us just. Kelly wants to rush the school while out to a bit for help. Spend a very small percentage of time on the ground so the fact that we find them going around and theyre approachable shows that there is an issue happening its probably hydration and lack of interest and. On the way back to the calm she spots another one. All. Just. To close one spot. At. Least. A little but. This is supposed to be a peak tourism season on kangaroo. But instead of sightseeing hes flying nude the soldiers in 580. 5 sparked by lightning have raged through the dense and pushed land seems. Even causing fire tornadoes. Ok all right oh oh oh 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 in 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 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 the move to volunteers have set up a clinic at the Kangaroo IslandWildlife Sanctuary kelly and evan bringing in their best interest. 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 by all so we dont need to check for care. Were quite. Then. Probably a little bit of a hot dry did a little bit on the y. But hes in pretty good shape and artfully if we can just give it a bit of hard try to. Give him a cane hopefully hell be running around a nikon i will go for this one this is rare where normally finding lots of buttons on the fate that we need to trade we need for human pain relief and hes not expect cases like this one on an operating table nearby. As much as they look quite bad husayn a lot of these coming lattes and theyve healed quite nicely 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 wind up with the wrong one getting the wrong tradesmen. Theyre going to clot and have a hard call to head well this is the one i see. That means theres a 160. 00 is also ss and they say they had about already and more than 300. 00 you look at the areas just slightly. Saying just enough to bad. All eyes are on. The phone on. Just before he says thats looking good. So one is 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. And like yes well i will say very telling so were checking for joey she did have a job. Because the tape is quiet in la. So unfortunately with the fall and the stress and the dry sion shes dropped the jawi unfortunately 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 bargain making reason for them. Has volunteered to help in full bushfire in the agencies over the last 5. To 12 next one isnt like that but he says he hasnt seen anything quite like this if youre right why youre so welcome for the other schools that will require that this is a lot harder because severity of the injuries seem to be much worse than what i was saying in the past. And theres 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. Everyones 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 im pretty resilient person but the mental impact has been. 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 just copy described. There im a im a wildlife lover its just the air thats the reason i do what i do it breaks my heart to see the agony that is going on out here in spain in spain extremely stressful wait. While the plight of the stray 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 quietness and the 2nd is playing out right now as those that survive to battle it out so whatever food is left its also become a Hunting Ground with a cover provided by trees and all the its now gone leaving little protection from predators. Alive. Im meeting with wildlife ecologist pat hodges hes hoping one of the worlds most vulnerable species the Kangaroo Island does not. You know about 200 metres away probably from a stroll is a big breakfast animal that was going to the. Pats been studying the small mouth like marsupial for more than 5 g. s so the kangaroo on its part of the does your own family which has got a whole lot of different species within it so the tasmanian targa was was was related to those guys in the tasmanian devil and western quolls hunger all of that the only knights of carnivores that night have kind of response so if you know. That that moves within this within this habitat. They were thought to be less than 500. 00 of them before the fire is but nearly all of the habitats. Being destroyed by a flood. Its unrecognisable like if you were here a month ago before the flies you would be pushing through big vegetation these banks you know why out here so you know we wouldve been kind of pushing through like this and getting scratched and yeah and such a lot follow a little item all pathways are here so its totally under the most of the moment. But i mean its we are lucky to have some of these little tiny little patches of 8 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 weve got this is good news we had done out here last not so you can see here on c. N. N. If you look there on that rock. Thats the little fellow that. Does amazing to think that just a few hours ago there was a kangaroo right there just makes their way on more and then yeah thats right yeah 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 dominance to eat its not unrealistic to think that were you know monitoring the extinction of an animal thats. Documented in real time yeah its something on a thought i would be doing in my career thats for sure and yeah were just going to work bloody hard to make it not be the case. Its not going to be easy to find this may have passed but the Kangaroo Island dumb ass 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 is 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 look and 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 seeing whats happened i dont. See here. So thats lost. And hasnt been hit with the talk that cat has been hit so we have you know taken out another cat so its its actually the best easily kind of hype for a lot of people will be wondering why someone who blah blah blah blah conformation over 3 point killing i will. Tell us why so well carol packed yeah for sure i mean look way way no through Extensive Research in australia the feral cats you know one of the case running processes through 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 know its those native species to help them as much as we can and remove the predation pressure while we can. Tell much damage can one. Thankful. Here one cat in one nor could take out the whole population that weve that we turn to know about record. Yeah exactly i mean you know what you know initially you know the fire has been a big catalyst but the. Following up is its 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 the way 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 where you get to i managed to get a pretty striking one from him 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 species through the next couple of weeks and so we get the sense off and then well be able to sleep sleep a little bit easier. Back across the island at the clinic the vets have their hands full. This is where he one i thought is patriots checking on the koalas and then and kelly protein the day before we just have a look at you go on. This little one here a little bit shaw as we can say you know eyes are looking in on. The group in with poor is quite well were trying to use this as a tree in the past so a grip in the back legs on the bikes a bit and thats what qualities do that want to always hold on to something she doesnt want to be with. A moment. But it does look like shes been a thin and drinking. Not too concerned at this point or what is. That simple be reform that will be if shes got any white and continues to 8th and drink over the next 40 odd hours then we would be put in there in the real. Spend. With some other 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 he picked up yesterday i. T one i 6 just not this one where you. Thought you might be up to trade. And i am. Only on the bandit. Guy and odds are looking good really good if they have caught on the tree that means they are feeling this is my new car this is where i want to live so he is adjusting to being here in a single year it differently but we want them to actually have a little bit of thought. If i dont have some follow it and you know i accept it really read it slowly especially being a wild animal wed be concerned about the scale. So there is a real critical patches that we need to protect meanwhile patch has a new ally in his quest to save the Kangaroo Island sternness professional feral cat Chapa Mari Schofield yes or head for here in falling temperatures thats murrays with the a straight in Wildlife Conservancy a group dedicated to protecting native animals from introduced species very small been tough to long prison to wally will mean. All law on this in the long run. Is running along the other side of the fence then he cant change me 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 you know for looks like a female cat and got lots of images of her actually walking past a camera and she is calling us socks and has her 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 we can actually not home arranging here or our mari to really kind of going in. On her movements to try to try to hunt and then we want to get trapped in failure stopping to get me. Yeah im going to wake to go before we can get this fenced so. Every know its critical for the little guys right now. My precious my precious. Mari gets to play a couple different models who. They called cattle thats what we call the stall a trap. Because its a like a vault so they get locked in the. Night the cats. Im killing the dugout. Maryse 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 take another one of us not him and he still at the but sometimes a bad night with a look over right away yeah yeah because you know i havent got in that or havent got it. But within just a few days sucks hes being caught. With the help of traps and fences pats hopes that the Kangaroo Island down offs will not only some fond of the finest 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. We still dont know how devastating the long term consequences of these spies will be not just here on came to the wall and you know straight there is a hole but this pain amazing resilience in the Community Everyone just helping each other out and for us what we need. Chinese authorities the putting those they cited committed a crime and changing but are they show trials or genuine confessions. That i want east investigations. On al jazeera. Every. Thanks love to make loans to some friends because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because most taxpayers never go away theres a new one born every single day and it is an Urgent National necessity that it be officially request the education of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow im a sinner im a bad person. Thats machine on aljazeera. 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