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Nancy spends her free time helping geese and other waterbirds, but getting this family across a busy intersection turned into quite the operation. Dodo editor Valentina talks with Nancy about the moment she stepped into traffic to make sure every goose made it safely across.
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00:00it was getting towards dust the cars aren't gonna see them crossing all right we'll get them next
00:05round i think most people don't think how like dangerous this work is but i see you and i'm like
00:09wow this woman is like fearless let's go canada geese can't fly from beginning of june through
00:18the beginning of august i knew that i was gonna have to stop and help them cross because they
00:23weren't gonna make it let's go guys a lot of these wild animals are incredibly affected by
00:29urbanization yeah streets are very dangerous for them but this particular intersection is really
00:34busy we just had to start crossing them um and hope that everyone was paying attention to stop
00:43yeah that's true carrie went to the side to stop the traffic and i was pushing them from behind
00:48let's go guys well my heart was pounding the entire time it even gets my adrenaline pumping
00:54bravery is like acting in spite of fear you know we decided to go straight for the diagonal and i
00:59was a
00:59little nervous we were gonna go right through the center of traffic that particular night
01:05everyone was amazing everybody stopped it went so perfectly thank you
01:16all right kind of like gives me hope for humanity such an accomplishment
01:23we can all do something the simplest is just stop your car and just wait for them to cross
01:28they also deserve to live and roam around just like we do we keep taking away their habitats and
01:35then we get mad when they're going into our street if everyone could see them through my eyes
01:41honestly everybody would be saving them
01:43you

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