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Australia is such a welcoming place to come.
We love having people here because we really are a long way from everywhere.
But it's like it's like a beautiful piece of ancient nature here that you won't see anywhere else in the world.
Animals a unique Today I'm Janine Duffy from a kidney walkabout of the owner and chief koala researcher.
We call it conservation travel, so we figure if you're going to a place to see the animals, which a lot of people want to do, you may as well helped.
Um, while you're there.
But the end of 2019, start of 2020 we had the worst bushfires in human history.
Here in Australia, in koala habitat.
A two moment.
It's really important to do post bushfire survey work.
So to see what animals and now coming back into the areas that suffered from the bushfires.
So they're out there with the guide.
They see something they say, Oh, what is that?
Is that that thing we're looking for?
And you go?
Yeah, that's it.
It's easy and it's fun, and guests on tour get to be part of it, and it enriches their travel experience enormously.
after the bushfires, we've started a project to plant trees in an area adjacent to where the bushfires were.
So behind me, you can see tree planting going on.
So the little green boxes, uh, tree guards.
So these air protecting the little baby tree while it's young, This is something that we would love tourists to come and help us do.
I mean, how would a traveler feel if they planted a tree here next year and then in four years came back, saw that tree with a koala in it, knowing that they helped save this species.
I mean, I'm tearing up their thes fires where the worst the world has ever seen.
There has never been interest in koalas worldwide like there is now.
We have the perfect opportunity to really sort this out to really save koalas.
Now that we've got so much international and Australian focus, I've been to a lot of places and I've never seen anywhere is pretty and gorgeous as Australia travelers air so welcome here.
We love having people here.