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Wildlife Heroes Podcast

Clementine Liebenberg

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Australia’s 15,000+ wildlife volunteers work relentlessly, under intense conditions, donating their time and resources to help rescue, rehabilitate and release our precious native wildlife. Series 1 of the Wildlife Heroes Podcast: Caring for Carers, aims to start a mental health conversation to support our volunteers to look after themselves, and each other. Series 2 of the podcast: One Animal at a Time, aims to explore the tremendous role of wildlife rehabilitators in conservation, and why ...
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Bats are a keystone species on the east coast of Australia, with a critical role to play in maintaining our diverse flora, and keeping our forests healthy. They’re also misunderstood and feared as carriers and spreaders of zoonotic disease. Bats are profoundly vulnerable to increasing extreme weather events, dying in their tens of thousands in each…
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On Sydney's suburban fringes, Koalas are having a resurgence - and this is great news. But it is happening right where the slow crawl of urban development is encroaching on their habitat. Meanwhile on the Liverpool Plains, a farmer collaborates with a researcher to break a few truisms about Koalas - and help the species to survive extreme weather e…
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In this episode we visit Higher Ground Raptor Centre - the most significant raptor rehabilitation centre in Australia. Peggy McDonald is a national treasure and she talks intimately about her home and work. In Australia, 13 of our 35 species of raptors (birds of prey) are listed as threatened, with every individual holding high importance to the su…
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In this episode we are near Braidwood in the Southern Highlands of NSW, visiting Dr Howard Ralph and his team who run the Southern Cross Wildlife Hospital. Dr Ralph is one of few wildlife specialist vets in the state. This clinic is set in remote bushland, and carers from far and wide bring their animals here for treatment they can't get anywhere e…
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Data collected by NSW National Parks & Wildlife over recent years is revealing the tremendous results of wildlife rehabilitator efforts - with nearly 700 species and 85,000 individuals being rescued a year. This rescue data (from 2014 to 2018) has recently been made public as part of the NSW Volunteer Wildlife Rehabilitation Sector Strategy and can…
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Catastrophic events are all too frequent - flood and fire all take their toll on wildlife and wildlife carers are always there to pick up the pieces. So how do we best recover and look after ourselves, and our animals, after we've been on the front line of a traumatic wildlife rescue emergency? We hear from: Jessi Jean Drew Smythe, WIRES volunteer …
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Each single animal we rescue takes hours, days, weeks and months of care. But the big picture remains grim. How can we take care of ourselves as climate warriors and climate worriers? We speak with: Dr Ros Irwin, a veteran carer and President of Friends of the Koala from Lismore in NSW. Sally Gillespie, a former psychotherapist who presents talks a…
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Wildlife care is 24/7 as we all know. So how do we make time for ourselves, and what can we do to ensure we remain well, and are able to keep caring? Guests: Suzy Nethercott-Watson, a carer for 20 years, and the director of Two Green Threads - a website built specially to support wildlife volunteers in the work they do. Sharon Draper, animal lover …
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The pressures are great, so what happens when we stop getting along? We consider conflict - from individual, to in the group, to with the larger community and how wildlife volunteers can build and maintain positive and supportive relationships. Guests: Jess Birrell, wildlife volunteer, reptile trainer and expert. Lyne Page, TAFE senior counsellor, …
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We're all in this together - so how best to support and encourage our fellow wildlife volunteers when they struggle? Guests: Tilly Gray, wildlife carer who loves all animals (humans included!) and is currently working on “The Wildlife Carer Rehabilitation Manual - How to Care for Human Beings” Sally Gillespie, a former psychotherapist who presents …
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