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17/02/2025
"It takes one second to kill/shoot a macropod. It will take a volunteer wildlife carer 9 months of 24hr, 7 days a week of intensive caring, to raise the orphaned joey to an age it can survive within a new mob."
This is the reality of joey rescue, and that is for the lucky joeys who haven't been bludgeoned to death or left to die in the bush.
Here is one of the lucky ones.
*Photo credit - Carly Stewart