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Kangaroo School

Kangaroo Haven

Kangaroo Haven

Mandy Watson has nursed and released 586 kangaroos back into the wild. At any one time she’s surrogate mother to 40 kangaroos ranging in age from delicate week old "pinkies" through to bouncing three-year-olds. She gives each and every one of them a name.

Gold Fever

Gold Fever

Gold fossicking takes a certain type of person and when gold fever hits you need to watch your back. According to Honest John and Steve you never know what greed will lead a rival gold digger to do. Despite the perils however, they still prefer the outback to the city

Australia's Barramundi

Australia's Barramundi

A dam wall located at Western Australia's Lake Kununurra has interfered with an ancient breeding pattern of the barramundi. In a laboratory 600 miles away, an artificial breeding cycle has been created to restock Lake Kununurra with barramundi.

Burning Land

Burning Land

An out of control fire could burn hundreds of miles of the Kimberley unchecked. Aboriginal people managed parts of the Kimberley landscape by burning patches. This knowledge has been passed on to rangers and future caretakers, and in doing so they are changing the way fire moves across the landscape.