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We go out with two members of the Animal Justice Party near the town of Mittagong, who are amongst many Australians now leaving out food in
bushland areas for Australian native wildlife, due to the lack of food
brought on by the drought and the bushfires. We follow the pair, Heather
Edwards and Leon Gross, on video through bushland, as they leave out specially prepared Australian wildlife pellets for the diets of wombats, kangaroos and wallabies; birdseed for native birds and sliced apples for possums. Both are very knowledgeable of the issues involved in the correct way to leave out food, where to leave it and how much, so that the animals do not grow too dependent on humans for food, as conditions gradually will revert to normal after the bush regenerates and their normal food supply becomes available again. Some people are even reporting their "food drops" by GPS so that others will not over-feed wildlife in any given area. As reported in the media around one billion animals are estimated to have been killed in in the 2019/2020 bushfires and food in burnt out bushfire areas is scarce.
Mittagong is about 11 kilometres away from the "Green Wattle Creek" megablaze (larger than 277,000 hectares in size) that engulfed the area to the south of the Blue Mountains and has put Mittagong at times under threat of ember attack.
We go out with two members of the Animal Justice Party near the town of Mittagong, who are amongst many Australians now leaving out food in
bushland areas for Australian native wildlife, due to the lack of food
brought on by the drought and the bushfires. We follow the pair, Heather
Edwards and Leon Gross, on video through bushland, as they leave out specially prepared Australian wildlife pellets for the diets of wombats, kangaroos and wallabies; birdseed for native birds and sliced apples for possums. Both are very knowledgeable of the issues involved in the correct way to leave out food, where to leave it and how much, so that the animals do not grow too dependent on humans for food, as conditions gradually will revert to normal after the bush regenerates and their normal food supply becomes available again. Some people are even reporting their "food drops" by GPS so that others will not over-feed wildlife in any given area. As reported in the media around one billion animals are estimated to have been killed in in the 2019/2020 bushfires and food in burnt out bushfire areas is scarce.
Mittagong is about 11 kilometres away from the "Green Wattle Creek" megablaze (larger than 277,000 hectares in size) that engulfed the area to the south of the Blue Mountains and has put Mittagong at times under threat of ember attack.