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In 2005 Chris ‘Brolga’ Barns set up a baby kangaroo rescue centre in central Australia’s Alice Springs. The centre was created to raise and nurture orphaned kangaroos whose mothers had been struck and killed by vehicles in Australia. Often Chris would find the orphans at the side of the road still in their mother’s pouch.
After receiving generous donations from around the world, Barns went on to build his own wildlife sanctuary from 2009-2011. The sanctuary currently houses 28 kangaroos and one camel.
Barns’ career began as a bird keeper at Pearl Coast Zoo in Broome, Western Australia. Later he was a zookeeper at Tipperary in the Northern Territory. It was at Pearl Coast Zoo however, when Barns had his first experience with an orphaned joey:
“My first experience with an orphan kangaroo joey was in 1989 when I was a 17 yr old Zookeeper at Pearl Coast Zoo in Western Australia. Her name was Josie Jo – a beautiful Western Grey joey being raised at the zoo staff quarters where I lived. The adventure of having a joey in the house and helping raise her made me realise that all I wanted to do in life was be the best ‘kangaroo mum’.”
One day in 2011, Barns received a phone call from film director Andrew Graham-Brown, asking if Barns would be interested in doing a ‘taster tape’ about his life with kangaroos. The ‘taster tape’ is kind of like a move trailer made to entice broadcasters to commission a film or show. The tape Andrew and Chris made was well received by the BBC and they decided to fund a two-part series for Natural World.
It turns out people cared about what Chris was doing because the two-part series lead to a BBC Two series entirely dedicated to Barns’ life with kangaroos called, Kangaroo Dundee. The show has just completed its second season.
https://www.kangaroosanctuary.com/
http://twistedsifter.com/2015/03/chris-barns-kangaroo-sanctuary-australia/
I have never been to Australia but I love TV shows about it's natural wild life so of course I have seen show about Brolga and his Sanctuary on BBC
Based on web page TripAdvisor The Kangaroo Sanctuary is the #2 of 55 things to do in Alice Springs
https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Attracti ... itory.html
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Where Am I?
(Round 30)
Q & A
1. [avoran] Are you in an indisputably real place (not fictional, hypothetical, virtual, etc.)? YES
2. [coolcat59] Are you on earth? YES
3. [agamal007] Are you in Europe? NO
4. [Zoie] Are you in the Western Hemisphere? NO
5. [arianayaris] Are you in the Northern Hemisphere? YES
6. [avoran] Are you in Asia? YES
7. [coolcat59] Are you in Russia? NO
8. [Zoie] In terms of its English name, does the country you are in begin with a letter between A-L? NO
9. [hiemdal] Are you in China? NO
10. [avoran] Are you in south or southeast Asia, as defined by this map: NO
11. [thebomb] Are you in the north pole? NO
12. [Zoie] Are you in the Middle East? NO
13. [bookworm28] Are you in Mongolia? NO
14. [avoran] Are you in Central Asia (according to the same map) or part of the former USSR? NO
15. [coolcat59] Are you in Uzbekistan? NO
16. [arianayaris] Are you in China? NO
17. [Zoie] Are you in East Asia? YES
18. [agamal007] Are you in Japan? NO
19. [avoran] Is this place a natural feature (as opposed to man-made)? I don't think this question has a simple yes/no answer.
20. [bookworm28] Are you in South Korea? NO
21. [coolcat59] Are you in Taiwan? YES
22. [arianayaris] Are you in North Korea? NO
23. [Zoie] Are you in Taipei? NO, according to this interactive map:
http://go2taiwan.net/taiwan_map.php
where green refers to Northern Taiwan, blue refers to Central Taiwan, orange refers to East Taiwan, red refers to South Taiwan and purple refers to offshore islands.
24. [avoran] Is the place an administrative sub-division of Taiwan? YES (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Taiwan)
25. [Alessa9] Are you in Hualien? NO
26. [arianayaris] Is the population density less than 1000? YES
27. [avoran] Does the name (according to the same page) start with a letter between A-M inclusive? NO
28. [coolcat59] Are you at a tourist attraction? YES
29. [bookworm28] Are you at Wulai? NO
30. [Alessa9] Are you in Tainan? NO
31. [Zoie] Are you in Taitung County? NO
32. [arianayaris] Is the population density less than 500? (same page ) YES
33. [coolcat59] Are you in Pingtung county? NO
34. [bookworm28] Are you at Maolin? NO
35. [Zoie] Are you in Yilan County? NO
36. [Alessa9] Are you in Nantou County? YES
37. [arianayaris] Are you at one of the attractions listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantou_County#Tourist_attractions? YES
38. [agamal007] Are you at Sun Moon Lake? NO
39. [bookworm28] Are you at the Chung Tai Chan Monastery? NO
40. [Alessa9] Are you at Cingjing Farm? YES!!
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Are you in the Northern Hemisphere?