australia is such a welcoming place to
come we love having people here because
we really are a long way from everywhere
but it's like it's like a beautiful
piece of ancient nature here that you
won't see anywhere else in the world
our animals are unique
g'day i'm janine duffy from echidna
walkabout i'm the owner and chief koala
researcher we call it conservation
travel so we figure if you're going to a
place to see the animals which a lot of
people want to do
you may as well help them while you're
there
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at the end of 2019 the start of 2020 we
had the worst bushfires in human history
here in australia in koala habitat
at the moment it's really important to
do post-bushfire survey work so to see
what animals are now coming back into
the areas that suffered from the
bushfires
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so they're out there with the guide they
see something they say oh what is that
is that that thing we're looking for and
you go yeah that's it
it's easy and it's fun and guests on
tour get to be part of it and it
enriches their travel experience
enormously
after the bushfires we've started a
project to plant trees in an area
adjacent to where the bushfires were
so behind me you can see tree planting
going on so the little green boxes are
tree guards so these are protecting the
little baby tree while it's young
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this is something that we would love
tourists to come and help us do i mean
how would a traveler feel if they
planted a tree here next year
and then in four years came back i saw
that tree with a koala in it
knowing that they helped save this
species i mean oh i'm tearing up now
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these fires
were the worst the world has ever
seen there has never been interest in
koalas worldwide like there is now
we have the perfect opportunity
to really
sort this out
to really save koalas
now that we've got so much international
and australian focus
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i've been to a lot of places and i've
never seen anywhere as pretty and
gorgeous as australia travelers are so
welcome here we love having people here
and we love it when you can come and
help our wildlife
we're going to need you
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