Wombat rescuer Bill Waterhouse says the plight of Australia's wildlife is a constant emergency

Sally Pryor
January 10 2020 - 2:00pm

Bill Waterhouse could be forgiven for feeling a bit paranoid during this horror fire season. The co-founder of the Majors Creek Wombat Refuge is only half-joking when he describes the mad rush from sanctuary to sanctuary, moving rescued animals from one to the next, as they progressively burn in his wake - a kind of killing field.

Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor

Features Editor

As features editor at The Canberra Times, I love telling people things they didn't know - or even things they've always known - about the city we live in.

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