Safe and warm in winter
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2022
- It's only 4C, but this little Queenslander is feeling safe and warm in his winter woollies. Black-striped wallabies (Notamacropus dorsalis) are my favourite macropods. - shy and elusive, they have a preference for forested country with dense under story - which perfectly describes this refuge. Black-striped wallabies are all but gone from their former habitat in New South Wales, and are also disappearing in Queensland as ground cover is cleared to create cattle pasture. They are listed as ENDANGERED on the schedules of the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act because:
* The population and distribution have been reduced to a critical level
* They face severe threatening processes
* They are an ecological specialist (they depend on particular types of diet or habitat)
* They have poor recovery potential
In our area, weekend-warrior style urban cowboys with 4WD, firearms and severe IQ deficits will shoot black-striped wallabies because they don't know the difference between an eastern grey kangaroo and a wallaby. Or a cow, for that matter. If it has fur and moves, they'll probably pull the trigger. Oxygen thieves. 
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The wallaby and her joey are adorable!
Hello Bonnie, I agree! I just had to upload this clip, mostly because of the cuteness overload @ 1:19 There are definitely days where I wish I could just disappear back into a warm, soft paradise.
I love these videos you share with us. Animals living their lives...in spite of humans ongoing destruction. ❤️
Hello Trena, thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I agree - with all the destruction going on around us, it is a relief sometimes to remember that there are some small spaces where wildlife can still be wild, at least to some degree.
So you make shelters, safe spaces and water sources for animals?
thats so sweet!
That's some beautiful footage. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Brad, thank you for watching, and for taking the time to share words of encouragement. I hope you are enjoying an awesome week.
Beautiful
Gorgeous
Thank you for providing a safe environment for these precious beings.
Hello Dorothy, and thank YOU for caring!
Oh the baby going back into the pouch !🥰
So cute
I don't think I have seen such clear video of a joey in the pouch of a wallaby. It's almost like they are simultaneously in track when it calls for it, but then they divert their attentions away to be like two minds attacked to the same body.
I feel terrible for the plight of Australia's (and the world's) biodiversity, the carelessness and conceit for the future that many in places of power (or even at the end of a barrel or hatchet) show.
I remember just reflecting on those already extincted by such arcane means which we still so proudly do today; pretty desert wallabies, ones with crescents, other like kangaroo rats. Then our extinction rate in total is just something which is so unforgivable that we haven't yet taken seriously or dedicated war memorials for (I seem to remember a hall of extinctions...more scientific, but our current Anthropocene has created the 6th and most dramatic mass extinction event ever).
[Here/home] it gets below zero, where cider gums thrive. Bennett's wallabies abound, with some 'forester' grey kangaroos. Among them on Bruny Island the only albino ones (a sight to behold! You can also behold fields full of millions of wombats north on Maria Island. Both islands have distinctive necks O_
Hello Betula, I feel your pain and frustration. The slaughter of our native fauna and the widescale destruction of habitat continues at a breath taking pace in QLD, with the unassailable slogan of 'jobs and growth' worshipped with such religious zeal that it would make an American televangelist blush. We see thousands of acres of pristine habitat bulldozed and burned to create grazing pasture that is marginal at best, and inevitably within a few short years the degraded soil becomes capable of supporting little more than a few hooved fleas (aka goats). What is the economic sense of that, yet alone the moral justification? But worse than the soulless pursuit of profit is indeed those that torture and kill for pleasure. I have no words for that.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge It is so beyond words the things that continue to go on, not just on a world scale, but at a mass scale in one of the world's most developed countries, with a service-based economy.
The story here ranges to being similar to Brazil (under a psuedo-dictator), or Hungary (under a pseudo-dictator).
Indeed, I wish for many things that common decency could easily prevail if our most powerful systems were designed in such a way.
Should we have a super-constitution (can override the constitution legally) based on ethics (we could actually employ philosophers?), or a fourth governmental house which can produce public service (like education on issues) and legislation which is still voted in parliament, or a threshold of that legislation based on that constitution and scrutiny of political actions based on all indicators?
I think things have been quite bad too for the past 9 years due to federal shenanigans. The environment has needlessly suffered through so many conscious and accidental tragedies; so many reports ignored, scientists threatened with the force of the law, and nothing done for making the economy more efficient.
A buried report on the environment will now be released. I don't have the biggest hopes for Labor, even though they have a better record (not on a state level), but maybe the Crossbench being 3x bigger will be the real changer. Also, a sacred grove in Victoria won't be mindlessly bullozed anymore!
Politics can be very annoying (especially with spin), but it plays a massive part in everyone's lives. Knights in Shining Llama is a tiny channel, but I think it offers a fairly objective review of various materials which are in the public domain, as well as recounting the federal ICAC saga... It's another broad area: but urban design has an impact on the broader Australian result, so I sort of recommend Bicycle Dutch (which seems weird, but this is another area where perceptions and things are shaped by regressive lobbying) who visited Australia and made videos about the cycling side of things (a side-effect of accessible design), and Canberra.Bike in the bush capital -- that city should have been one of the best by far in the world, but the Griffin plan (which would stand today in modern world-class) was undermined by bureaucracy which created its modern flaws...
Anyway, maybe we should get an Oceanian Union started, and give it 7 charters or something like the EU, and then we can try and be as progressive as them in many areas. NZ has a new public holiday, I think that's nice (ours are strangely mainly Christian observances, even though we have a lot of unique potential right here...for everything). It seems you can personify various countries and regions by age -- some parts of Europe (in various circumstances) can feel quite mature, as if they have aged well-aware of history (don't repeat obvious mistakes) and can live off the post-destructive age in regneration and innovation (some on that same continent would differ). Others feel different ages (this is quite subjective), maybe you can understand them from different leaders who represented them. Some are quite childish sometimes, maybe a humorous type, or an unnecessary blundering on all sides (not mentioning any world powers...). Then it is easy to be reminded that just one leader of a country can flip a whole reputation and put into question everything; maybe if you have good enough institutions you can avoid a situation like that. In Australia there's the obvious flag debate (even the Wikipedia article struggles to back up against), and the republic debate, where we could have elections, random (what's that called?), Swiss semi-direct-democracy, or my personal recommendation, making our monarch the already-crowned cockatoo (one in Hobart was congratulated by the current queen for reaching 100).
Lots of community movements (like Lock the Gate, etc.) can be heartening too, though they often have little impact on where decisions are made; but public awareness is good.
We can all find refuge in things like nature, art, and music, as well as community in humans and other life.
I have no idea what I wrote back there anymore (the incoherence...!).....I'm too worried to read it!
Very nice and lovely video, thanks.
A beautiful clip along with the vile fact that none humans once more claim ownership of the plant and stop
at nothing .Perfect description of the nasty variety Those with 'severe IQ deficits' How can it be allowed to do
this ? Or is Australia so hell bent on emulating other nasty powers .Gun mad morons .Great work you are doing .Highlighting .this spreads the word .Thumbs up 36 ...Keep posting and spreading the word .
Hello HelenaMikas, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. The actions of the aforementioned urban cowboys is illegal, but that doesn't worry them. Cutting our fences and stealing our cameras is also illegal, but they still feel entitled to do what they please and take what they want. Humans ..... meh.😒
@@GubanaNatureRefuge Dare I ask where are the police or are they in on it ..
@@HelenaMikas Too busy in town dealing with domestic violence and 12 year olds stealing cars.
How cold does it get at nights during winter ?
just in the one location or All over Australia?
Hello Jack, thank you for your question. At this location it can drop to around -5C in winter, which is reasonably harsh for species which must also be able to endure 45C+ in summer.
I do miss the ticks... I'am sure they don't
Wakala 😆
Same story everywhere. Cattle ranchers taking over wildlands and then the wildlife are run out, rounded up like wild horses in the US or more often just culled. What a terrible crime this is. Future generations will think we were crazy to not stop it.
Hello Una, it's crushingly frustrating, and unbearable to dwell on isn't it? Our way of coping is to put everything we have into buying land and locking it up .... it's not much on a global scale, but it's all we can do to say "they can't destroy THIS little bit right here"
You could be making so much $ by posting them crows eating tick off from kangaroos. Just giving you my 2 cents.
They don’t control the animals, Jay.
Thank you for your 2 cents TJ. I am quite aware of that fact.