Cuteness overload!! 🥰🥰 ​ 📹 @wombat_rescue thanks for sharing this gorgeous footage! ​ Wombat Rescue is licensed to rehab & release wombats and treat mange in the field. They are a not-for-profit and reliant on donations for support. | ABC Landline

Canberra-based wombat rescuer Yolandi Vermaark of Wombat Rescue is on the frontline of fighting mange in wombats. Here, Australian Geographic follows her on one of her typical weekends, which involves looking for joeys in roadkill and treating a small population of wombats with cydectin that helps get rid of mange. It's a hard story to watch, but Yolandi believes all Australians need to open their eyes to the incredible suffering wombats with mange endure. | Australian Geographic

We have many cameras out in our treatment areas to track and monitor the wombats in our mange treatment programs. One of our cameras captured these beautiful clips of a mum with baby on board, dragging some dry grass into the burrow for nesting. It is still very cold in Canberra as our winters can be extreme at night. She is making sure deep in her burrow in the bedding chamber she has some grass for warmth and comfort. If you look closely you can also see as she goes into the burrow, bub is pee