00:00So Ivan here we have our intensives, our intensives hold a few different animals, so we have some
00:07hand raised animals, we have sick and injured animals, we also have our animals that we're
00:12going to release into our sanctuary.
00:14So right here is our breeding hub and that's genetic diversity and wild traits and that's
00:19what we're trying to breed.
00:20So it's a really exciting day for us because we're going to release a devil into our 400
00:27hectare sanctuary and she's going to be the new genetics for the animals in there.
00:34This is a big day not just for this devil but for Aussie Ark as a whole because this
00:38is their whole mission, breeding enough, securing enough land that they can literally get taken
00:44from these intensive enclosures and released out into an environment that is exactly the
00:50same as they would live in the wild.
00:52What an amazing project this is.
00:54Let's go and get her released.
01:10Now we just pop her down here.
01:12Perfect, that's great.
01:25There she is.
01:38My hopes for Aussie Ark is that we keep doing the amazing work that we're doing, breeding
01:42all these endangered animals and we're not just stopping at the animals that we've got,
01:46we're always looking every year at new species to bring in that are around the Barrington
01:51Tops area.
01:52So I see Aussie Ark getting bigger and better as the years go on.
02:02As you spend a little bit of time around Aussie Ark and understand their core philosophy,
02:07this idea of setting up insurance populations of highly endangered wildlife, this idea of
02:13completely cleaning large acreage of all of the feral species, reintroducing the species
02:20that once occurred there in great numbers, it's an amazing philosophy.
02:24If 8 billion of us on this planet did one little thing, like in conservation, we'd have
02:29a totally different planet than we do today.
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