Robert Irwin Shares A Moment With Wildlife That Felt Like Defying Gravity

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Together, we’re unlimited ❤️ Robert Irwin shares a glimpse at a precious moment in wildlife conservation that felt like defying gravity and invites people to change the world for good.

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00:00In working with animals, what's a moment that you felt like you were defying gravity?

00:04Oh, I like that. I like that a lot.

00:08Amazing. I tell you what, what feels like an out-of-body experience,

00:13what just feels like defying gravity, I like that,

00:16and really meaningful in my life is when I'm at my wildlife hospital that we have.

00:22We had a little koala joey that came in, and she was beautiful.

00:27Her mum had gotten hit by a car on the road, and her mum passed,

00:30but she was protected inside the pouch.

00:33Out on the road, we lifted her up, and she had passed,

00:37and this little tiny joey just emerged from the pouch completely well, completely unscathed.

00:43We spent weeks rehabilitating her, getting her strong and healthy,

00:47released her back out into the wild.

00:49To watch her scaling up that tree, ready to live out the rest of her life,

00:53it's just a meaningful thing.

00:55At the heart of everything I do, it's wildlife conservation.

00:58It's protecting the individual animal, but also trying to create a movement for everyone

01:03to realise our own power, particularly the power that young people have

01:07to make change for good in the future.

01:10We are enduring the most volatile and intense and scary time from an ecological perspective,

01:19and we really have the responsibility to tip it over the edge or to bring it back from the brink.

01:24I really believe we can do that.

01:26I never thought this, the ballroom, Dancing with the Stars,

01:29would be a way to spread that message and to hopefully empower people,

01:33but I'm so grateful it's been a way to do that.

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