Veteran wombat carer and president of the Wombat Protection Society of Australia Marie Wynan has responded to recent wombat shootings with despondency after fighting for wombat conservation for years around her Glenbog State Forest home.
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“I currently have three baby wombats in my care,” Ms Wynan said on Monday.
“And I just released a wombat whose mother was shot and left in a ditch.”
Once the wombat is raised, finding a release site is almost impossible.
“If we release them where they are shot they will be shot again,” Ms Wynan said.
“We’re running out of safe places to release them.”
Ms Wynan said shooting is just one problem the wombats face.
“Wherever there is logging, burrows are being back-filled and flattened and the wombats are being buried alive,” Ms Wynan claimed.
“So they have to put up with that in the forests, and if they are on private property they get shot or poisoned, and if they live near a road they get hit by cars.
“They’re losing the battle.”
