Another Displaced Wombat
This beautiful young Wombat was found in the middle of East Bowral seeking comfort in a kind lady’s kennel in her backyard.
Our wombat was exhausted. Lucky for two of us, we picked up the kennel with Wombat inside and placed in the back of our truck.
Exhausted, our evicted Wombat slept for two days. She ate lots of grass and drank enough water but on the third day she was ready to go but where?
As you can see from the map where she was found, she has no home.
East Bowral was developed along the riparian zone which is the ancestral pathway of the Wombat. Our rescue wombat looks the age where mum would’ve said time to go so they sometimes walk into a dangerous oblivion of roads, unfriendly environment and fear. But lucky for this Wombat !
Ridiculously our town planning was done from 1788 back in London without any sensitivity to the needs of the landscape here but all about development. This outdated, insensitive practice must have corrective planning by local government otherwise will lose much more of our native animals.
Not only should we be leaving riparian zone alone but development should be further than above the flood zone. Why do we expect echidnas and wombats to float down rivers where they have no home and forced to live in peoples backyards?
Our wombat victim will face tremendous stress being introduced to a new area which although doesn’t have many wombats (we hope not an aggressive one) Wombats like humans are very territorial and feel defensive when new people arrive.
Sadly, as well, many Wombats get flyblown after the assault of deep territory bites. But we can thank the primary industries! We made sure our victim had some ivermectin pour on which should give her a months worth of resistance to maggots and hopefully mange.
She will be very susceptible to mange because of the stress.
As you can see in the short clips and images attached it’s a beautiful area with constant running water and of course there will be ancestral burrows for her if she survives this transition.
Please wish her luck !
Here she is in the back of the truck. Not aggressive just frightened.
I have to drag her out with a net because she gets so frightened she doesn’t want to leave the cavern like feeling of the truck.
Wombats have no natural predators and they always respond rather cautiously when released. She spent some time under the car before being brave enough to walk off.
Here she is again, just surveying the new environment and smelling as much as she can. Still a bit cautious before leaving the car. Mind you this is a wild Wombat which indicates how clever they are.
Here she goes now best of luck dear Wombat !