Meanwhile... in Australia

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.