10/14/2017 0 Comments MILK CAPS FOR WOMBATSFor about 8 weeks I was collecting milk caps. These milk caps are used to treat wombats for mange. This week I posted just over 1,500 milk caps to Wombat Rescue Tasmania
Watch this video to see the treatment process. https://youtu.be/PceufcXR53A There are so many wombats down there with mange and there's a lot of volunteers trying to help them. This is just under half of what i have collected over the last 2 months thanks to 4 of the cafe's in my town that have held their caps for me. Each week i go in and collect them from the cafes. This week we counted some of them to send. I ...was shocked that the one pillow case that was full- had 1,500 caps in it! We closed up the pillow case, put it in a garbage bag and taped it up and posted it! If you are in diamond creek- be sure to get a coffee at one of these local cafe's- they supported me and are super nice. THANK YOU Bridie's Beanery Platters Cafe & Bar The Windy Mile Cafe. CRAFT BEER, LIVE MUSIC. GREAT FOOD and The Vines Cafe. I still have some caps to get from these cafes and a whole pillow case full so i will have about 2,000 caps to donate to Mange Management Victoria. I hope to collect them this week and donate them over the weekend. This should be enough milk caps to help wombat groups for a while so i am not collecting them anymore. thank you everyone who helped save caps for wombats! Look at that crazy wombat playing with them! Thank you to Wombat Rescue Tasmania for sharing this photo of my milk caps with a wombat- I love it!
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WELL- HERE IT IS! Libby's final tally for her fundraising in September. THANK YOU EVERYONE that has helped her raise so much money this past month. You can still donate to her koala cause online Money going to- Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Australia Zoo Australian Koala Foundation Special thanks to Australian Wildlife Habitat Homes Bridie's Beanery Simply Beautiful Decorations & Balloons Apted's Orchards 9/29/2017 0 Comments Libby's Save the Koala Day MessageA message from Libby on #savethekoaladay DONATE to her fundraiser online - https://www.gofundme.com/libby-s-koala-crusade Lets help #saveourkoalas During September she is raising money for Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary(wildlife hospital) and Australian Koala Foundation. To celebrate SAVE THE KOALA DAY- my mum, my brother and I went to Healesville Sanctuary. We LOVE going to the sanctuary and we are very lucky that its not far from home so we can go a lot. We got there just in time to see all the koalas being fed. It was great because they were very active. I am so happy- next year I go to high school. This means that I can finally do the Vet for a Day and Keeper for a day at the sanctuary over the Christmas holidays. I have been waiting for over a year to be old enough to do this and have been saving my money! I am so excited.
You can help me save our koalas by donating to my online fundraising: https://www.gofundme.com/libby-s-koala-crusade Zoos Victoria 9/28/2017 0 Comments Maru- Grantville VICMy mum won a family pass to Maru Koala & Animal Park. To win- she shared with them my passion for koalas and work I do for them and wildlife and my brothers LOVE for their big, male albino kangaroo. We were chosen from lots of entries.
The keeper that met us at the park knew about me and the work that i do. As a special "thank you" she arranged a special behind the scenes encounter with FOUR of their koalas. Its been sooo long since i've been able to get up close to koalas ag...ain. It was awesome. One of the best parts was that I got to take two of my friends in to meet the koalas and hear about them. They have never been up close to a koala before. They loved it. What i liked about Maru was that at the public Koala Keeper talk and during their wildlife show- they talked about the threats koalas face. They talked about how koalas have no natural enemies. That their biggest threat is us humans clearing their habitats.Their message about this was good. Thank you Maru for making me feel special for the day and for letting my friends and I, get up close to your koalas. A few weeks ago I went and talked to Sacred Heart PS OSH Club. They were raising money to buy material which they then made into pouches. They showed me the work that they were doing. This week a student dropped off some of their finished pouches. I was out the front collecting the linen from my bins when she came. It was great to see her and she seemed happy that I was there to take them personally. THANK YOU to the kids and Denise from Sacred Heart Primary School OSH Club. On Monday, August 7th and Tuesday, August 8th 2017, I went to 1st Eltham Scout Group and 1st Diamond Creek Scout Group. They invited me to their ARAP's (AGM's/end of year wrap up). Its a gathering of all the scout sections from each group. Monday night I spoke to about 60 people. Tuesday night I spoke to about 40-50 people about my koala cause and wildlife projects. 1st Eltham Scout Group On Monday night I went to 1st Eltham scout group to do a talk to them. When we walked in their were a lot of people there because they were having their ARAP. There were joey's, cubs, scouts and leaders there. When they called me up I was so scared because I had never done a talk to adults and I have never done it to that many people before. As I went through it got easier and easier. At the end I was happy because I thought I did it really well. After my talk they contacted me and said they were going to sew pouches for me. That is great- it means that I am inspiring people to help. 1st Diamond Creek Scout Group On Tuesday night I went to 1st diamond crrek scout group to do a talk. they were also having their ARAP. They had joey,cubs,scouts,leaders and more. I did a short talk about my projects that I am working on (Raising money for koalas and I explained how they are a vulnerable species, my linen for wildlife, making pouches and collecting milk caps to help treat wombat mange). At the end of my talk they gave me some of the bottle caps they had collected so far, they gave me the $88 that the Joey's had raised by selling cupcakes and they also presented me with a special scout scarf. Kathleen is a cub at 1st Diamond Creek Scout Group. On the night, she was awarded her "Grey Wolf" badge. This is an amazing achievement in the scouting world. I loved her thank you speech. She thanked her leaders and her family and at the start you could see that this meant a lot to her- she got a little bit emotional which was really nice to see. She must love being a scout and she should be very proud of everything that she had to do to get this badge. It has been 5 years since a cub in their group got this badge. She presented me with the Ambassador Scarf. The Scout Association has over the past couple of years created a scarf to present to prominent people in the community eg School principals, majors etc. The scarf shows all the different districts in the State of Victoria. It is also present to people for helping scout groups and to promote scouting and people that do good things in their community. I was surprised to receive the scarf, I love it and am very proud that they think I deserve it. Thank you to the 1st Diamond Creek Scout group for having me, fundraising for koalas and for recognising my work by presenting me with your very special scarf. You can see their donation was recorded on my GOFUNDME page- https://www.gofundme.com/libby-s-koala-crusade
You can donate to my cause through this link too. Today I went tree planting with my friend bonnie. it was the coldest it has evr been. we were planting at someones elses property. they had lots and lots of sheep. we planted over thirty trees. koala Clancy reachered there goal of planting two thousand trees. they planted two thousand, one hundred and something trees. we had morning tea in the sheep shering barn. it was amazing. we saw so much sheep wool. we also saw the tools they use to sher the sheep. I took a piece of wool from one of the baskets. It was soooo soft. We saw the little slide that they push the sheep down once they have shered them. there was a big peace of wool sitting on the floor. it looked like a blanket. after we went koala hunting. on our way we say some kangaroos sitting under the trees. there was a joey, mother and a father there. as we kept walking we spotted another boy koala. He was hiding up in a tree. He was in clancey's area. he is the most oldest and strongest koala in the whole koalas clancey range. They think that he has scared clancey off by growling to him. After we went to eat our lunch and then wee went home. Sadly this was last tree planting with Koala Clancy for 2017. Their last day is on Sunday, August 20th and I have a swimming competition so can't go. I have loved planting trees with Koala Clancy and seeing the wild koalas. I will be going down still and removing boneseed weed to help the koalas of the You Yangs. Some things I learned
7/29/2017 2 Comments Wildlife Rescue TrainingToday my mum took me to a wildlife rescuers training session with Wildlife Rescuers. They invited me to come back in February when I first met Andrew from there. He was the second person that I ever delivered linen to. We delivered They talked to you about the two different rescuers you can be. You can be a Transporter which picks up the animals from the vet and takes them to the carer or you can be a rescuer so you can rescue a animal and take it to the vet. They talked about birds, kangaroos, wombats, echidna, turtles, snakes and lizards. They showed us what is in a rescue kit. They taught us what to do if you find wildlife injured. I saw video of doing pouch checks- it was very good to see. Listening to Sharon and Andrew talk was great- they are very good at presentations and they are good friends. They were very funny at times too. They were selling wildlife kits for $30 dollars and tops for $10 dollars. I bought both. I really enjoyed seeing Andrew, Kyristi amd Sharon there. Things I want to add to my kit
Something interesting I learned I had never heard anything about echidnas. Sharon has had some rescues with them. She was very funny when she talked about them. Did you know that
FLASH BACK 2017 when I first met Andrew and Sharon from Wildlife Rescuers. Andrew was the first Shelter that I visited and first rescuer that I ever met.
Thank you to 1st Greenhills Scout Group for letting me come and do a talk. I enjoyed talking to you all and sharing my message. It was my first time using my new presentation cards. I thought everyone listened very well and learned a lot. I enjoyed watching everyone make a pouch. I thought they were amazing. I taught them about what a pouch looks like and explained why they are round. They liked the way I described how you hold a baby and how a joey lies in its mums pouch.
I explained about my wombat project. How volunteers treat the mange and what mange it. I talked to them about cutting plastic rings off vegemite jars etc and elastic bands before throwing them out and explained why it was important to do it. (For those that don't know- they can end up in our waterways and can get stuck around the neck of wildlife and kill them eg: platypus, birds, ducks etc). They loved the little wombat burrow flap that my mum and I made. Even the parents that were there thought it was amazing. I showed them what a barb wire fence looks like and explained to them why it is bad. (For those that don't know- barb wire on the top of fences is very dangerous for wildlife. Like a kangaroo- they jump these fences and sometimes their feet clip them and cut them. If untreated- they can die from bad cuts. Or worse- they can get stuck in them and be left there hanging to die). Farmers don't need to use these types of fences- there are other options for fencing that won't kill our wildlife. I taught them about where my pouches go and what they use them for. On the way home my brother wanted to sew more pouches. He wants to sew now. My mum had a message from a mum of a cub that was there- he is 8 and wants to sew pouches now too. If I get one kid from each talk want to do something- it is pretty amazing. The district scout leader was there on the night. He said that my presentation was VERY good, he was amazed by it. He said it would be good for me to talk to other groups and the leader said that her daughter does girl guides- she was going to talk to them about having me do a talk for them. I love to talk to kids about what I do, so if you live within 1hr of Diamond Creek Victoria and would like me to come and talk to a group, I would love to hear from you: you can contact my mum, Rebecca rubyfish11@gmail.com |
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