Meanwhile... these men and women are volunteering to save Australian animals after the bushfires.
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00:00In fact, they have to be positioned as in the mother's pocket, that is to say, rolled up.
00:22So that's what this pigsty is for.
00:25This is the position that is absolutely necessary for the perfect development of the animal.
00:40Knowing the work of raising a baby by hand and the disaster they are experiencing,
00:47we said to ourselves, on our scale, we will try to help them.
00:55We were completely surprised, in fact, and overwhelmed by this wave of generosity
01:07that came from everywhere, from all over France.
01:17And this pigsty, in fact, it's going to make its excrement inside and it's going to urinate inside.
01:22Which means that in reality, it will have to be changed very, very often.
01:45Taylor and I have been finding koalas together for three years now.
01:48She's trained to sniff out their fur and their scats.
01:52In ideal conditions, where the air is still, the smell of the animal actually drops down from the tree
01:57and Taylor can smell them. She'll sit right below them and point up to them and show us where they are.
02:10Some of them have gone into the koala hospital here in Port Macquarie for treatment and ongoing care.
02:15Others are deemed to be safe, fit and in good areas.
02:23Taylor is also trained to find quolls, foxes, cats and rats and rabbits.
02:28She knows, based on some verbal cues that I give her, as well as what equipment I bring
02:33and who I'm working with, what we're searching for.
02:36That means she is able to ignore foxes when we're looking for koalas
02:40and vice versa with a variety of other animals.
02:43For every koala we've lost, we've maybe lost 10 or 15.
02:47So that's a number that we're not seeing. We've lost so many animals, really so many animals.
02:51The koala has become the symbol of the fire, but so many other animals have died.
03:07The ones who've survived this horrible fire, like this koala,
03:10are the ones who have survived this horrible fire.
03:14The ones who've survived this horrible fire, by going into their burrows,
03:17they're going to come up to a completely different world and no idea how to exist in it.
03:22And it's going to be a world without food and water for them.
03:25So they've survived fire to die of thirst or starvation.
03:29And we're doing everything we can to turn that around.
03:43The wombats, if they're burnt badly, they'll go in their burrow and they will just die.