So planned for wildlife researcher kelly it is becoming clear just how perilous the situation is. She designs to evacuate the 12 koala bears that she has been studying for years before the flames reach the Blue Mountains it is the 1st time the g has been forced to take this kind of action. You know the oldest small town. With a small group of x. Pod some volunteers she manages to save a small but still significant number of koalas that survival. Is important for the conservation of the species. Hundreds of thousands of other animals also in immediate danger. Area. Where theyre at yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah so. Fast. 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. Shes still unable to visit the most heavily bound area for safety reasons. There guy back then blazes was still raging in 2 australian states and had already destroyed 80 percent of the Blue MountainsNational Park the park is part of a unesco World Heritage area and home to the countrys 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 that 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 weve 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 hes doing but knowing theres so many through here and now its such an important population thats nationally significant yet were not really happy i came 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 whats happening is that working can stations with water and food are now essential for the d. Hydrated injured marsupial survival spin isnt it. We can also put a rope on the bottom to guide it as it goes up. She has been studying. And transfer. And im just going to check and see if you can get a signal on who do you need. Some more terrible signal. Their colors come off. So did i really want to hear that reaction are you sitting on the car. We had a story of hope here in the mountains where finding a lot of koalas where we didnt expect they were young and growing populations and their own in in a protected area thats protected from habitat loss and now weve lost for at least for the 5 populations that weve been studying have been impacted by these fires. He think he. He. I. Think it was around the 23rd of december. It was the township of the open which is about a 15 minute draw from he was impacted was the view of far conditions they lost houses the conditions were terrible. She was found by the far far as not in the area of course that had been completely amazing thing about her is that coming out of that area she has not been. Has been working closely with for years he has even named one of the. Cali. Carried a koala has recovered from the problems caused by smoke inhalation bans both kelly and her companion marine are suffering from calamity or a bacterial infection that focal whiners can end in death its a real privilege to have these animals come in and stay with us its a lot of stress as a care because you want to help everyone that you can unfortunately we cant always help these animals to the point that they can be released sometimes when the injured all the too sick obviously the best part of doing this is that you get to let them go and take them back with i should because this isnt where they should be back out in the wild is where theres got to go out and make more more koalas. You know hes years 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 australian politicians have failed to acknowledge the dangers of Climate Change for so many years fire is not new a strike by any stretch but certainly the skyll and the intensity of the far as that were saying now is something i dont think any of us have signed the tractors will say the strike is always advise and unarguably thats correct but not like this its either warming just not used to getting the scale of animals that weve got coming in right now as a result of these farmers and its a National Treasure or International Tragedy and these animals dont just belong to us its trying to belong to the world. And just the the sky and the loss is an imagined it will. Have theyre going to bounce back and its not obviously its not just the koalas its 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 occurrence you know strangely Global Warming has extended those seasons and made the blazes more severe. 3 years australia has been experiencing extremely mountainous and dry summers. 1000000000 animals are estimated to have died in last summers mines according to experts its 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 1131000 species that need emergency intervention to ensure that survival after the devastating fires. Could come get a little. Bit ive. Never called him a know were going to give us your animals came to us than expected i thought that many died in the flames or had to be put to sleep because they couldnt be saved but i got to get him a living going to look at that we tree our data most recurrence happens if you get it up if we consider whether treatment is worthwhile or not and unfortunately are very many were not to be saved we decided to put to sleep animals with more than 20 percent burns or mistreatment in those cases has little chance of success or is very protracted. Animals have inbuilt behavior to protect themselves in fires they follow natures lessons in the event of danger or that the one bats generally hide under ground and koalas climb up trees higher and higher you can become normal fires usually burn in the middle section and travel rapidly. Eucalyptus 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 with that i but this year the fires were so ferocious that the trees burned in their entirety of all that when the koalas were roasted alive in the treetops on the. Italian vat Lorenzo Cranston is director of the university of sydneys avian reptile and exotic pet hospital which provides canta wildlife. Hes 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 isnt back on its feet. With your terrible. Were 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 an satellite us or meningitis to be ignored because in that 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 yet silly cause if everything goes well it will hopefully develop new strategies now that we can use to help australian wildlife in future fires with a genius of not just to save animals directly but also for example by issuing guidelines to prevent those kinds of fires very near and to know how to respond when the fires become threatening thats just as important as the treatment of the animals themselves and that prevention is better than a cure but any of them in your head that. Have been living in sydneys taronga zoo since their evacuation ban they are patiently awaiting their return to the wild. Theyre feeling a lot better and while a climatized and no longer dehydrated. Thank you. That weve just gone through and removed a few of their branches that fed out yesterday what it does they are the lucky ones and they are now in good hands nick performance has been looking after. Go on a sprint 20 years now but even so particular responsibility in this situation the 1st few days no doubt you know there was some settling in stress that they would koalas and you would 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 weve seen in those few weeks that have unfolded since is that theyre quite comfortable animals and now weve 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 were seeing them demonstrate normal behavior is any good genetic population that we can hold on to is just being made so much more vital. Least 8000 koalas dying in the state of New South Wales party designs to mated that the countrys 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 were talking only just over 200 years and now were a seeing such a Huge Population acquired that were now within estimates of 82300000 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 is a threatened species its taken a very catastrophic event like these large fires for people to actually realise the situation that i was just its a little bit assuaged. After months of finance the deluge of rainfall that followed brought only partial relief. The worst france in 3 decades brought new problems to the beleaguered country. Weather 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 stone age. In the midst of the chants and destruction the sun signs of life and knew how to. Do right. They were doing a couple Different Things basically this is to inform us of putting our koalas back the ones we took out the patrol that so were 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 then section where we got them from so they can be mighty bouncing back so i will be going behind doing sketch surveys and looking at how many sketch we find of the different quality vegetation and you guys have a doing a search and rescue lion looking out for koalas and if we find fresh scat well call you in to help go spotting for the actual koala that has the. In the group and so i would just have to stay in a tight group today you now said rescue lines i was at radio. Safety g. P. S. Devices while im so i would say take note that it has been 3 months since the coal miners were evacuated from the Blue Mountains and now it is possible for kelly to send in 40 again but in certain areas of the national long. Ok. Lets go 1st in case i get up a little its called. 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. Might not. Hold. His findings in really small fragments likely. That youre. Half one saved if there are a fairly very much of your old drug there so thats half a drug while its got the old 101 so probably pray fire right up to my crotch like. Oh my poor wife. Stands yeah that was a good joke it could. Get him for a smudge. Kid that old soon a bit of green in there. So. Maybe waco 2. We havent. Heard since the right yeah more recent and so here weve got surviving koalas so it hes finding older deposits at this site where we know those quotes have been through more recent days are probably the way courts are you so it indicates that surviving animals here which is great ok moving. The discovery of the fresh droppings motivates the volunteers to comb the bush for commerce. The excursion is also intended to our staffs whether there is enough foliage to nourish the animals in the wild all these information helps the research is to map the scorched zone and compare the data with that gathered before the bush fires it helps them gain a clearer picture of the blazes impact. Its 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 found fervent. Well spotted. This hidden by the canopy out there. In the world yeah hes got a little dot mark on the chest there. So you can say hes 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 and im called call on tags so its a new koala one we havent same before because if we took the most they out before the 5 and got 2 animals in here that do have tags on at the moment so most of them im going to find will be new we normally when we write a track we do find new animals every now and then because we know theres 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 whether this is a resident or a koala that moved in we are not sure. Kelly this is just the beginning of a painstaking repopulation process one requiring a lot of time and a lot of energy to go to get probably one more week of imagery satellite imagery to look at chlorophyll content and just check we have ive 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 it is good more content and good kind of being there for them and in that case of put them straight back to we got them from for some of them we might choose to put them if they came from really that hit patch we might choose to put them back on the other side that right nearby so its just coming down to those details now of exactly were going to put them back 2 months after our 1st visit we meet morgan again it is stopped raining the bush fires have been extinguished and walk is proceeding so the stuff is already as you feel it that you know has a 3rd koala in his calf so when he took him in 7 weeks ago he was a deaths 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 its starting to wane and then something happens when the girls had some recent issues with skin problems through what we think is in this station of ticks that the had after all the right events that happened on my way there at the collided with this explosion 6. Neither of them are sick comedia. And the by eating really well the getting also white little moraine here has gained a key ally in the last 3 or 4 weeks and the other ones going about half a kilo that it is putting on a little white and otherwise theyd be pretty well ready for day relates to morgan has to kaffir them daily and disinfect the cage every 3 days to find the tiki infestation but hes not 99. 00 cats in town returning the commodities to the happy dance is a process that needs patients and sound preparation. Part of the protocol is the quality get any tag and each year they record the color of the tag and the number and they also get a mark right chip inserted. In the shoulder blood and that they in and isles off that if this animal gets sick again or gets injured and comes into chaos then we know who she is and more medical history has day. So i will be looking at a lace another 4 weeks in case to treat this skin condition now and thats providing it responds to the treatment that were giving. Or its ok im going to catch it i its all right. You know. Its a fade. But with animals like this unexpected things can happen and that sort of blows out in maritime of these animals dying careful and even not retarded and for taking but youve got to take you know you just want to commit to it youve got to keep going until the jobs furnished. And beyond use of the wound. Has become a symbol for both global feelings and. That is a colleague of hers koala were about to play sessions and trying to do for a few months now taking a back the right way we quarter from the. Counties return home pouncer zones 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 our story years to that of our environment. And environment for which we are responsible. So i think again thats the way this is that nobody said helen thomas and we certainly havent we obviously need biodiversity 70 percent of our medicines come from night in a way highly dependent on it whether we realize it or not so im hoping that the tide changes and we do a mall before it really impacts us more than it has i mean this was a big impact for strata most people were affected by the fires on you someone who was affected by the fires say nows a good time to change that and i think a lot of us will be pushing for that. 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