A Quest to Save Baby Kangaroos on a Lonely Australian Highway
By SERENA SOLOMONJUNE 26, 2017
JUNE 23, 2017
COOBER PEDY, Australia — A few weeks ago, Deb Williams saw another dead kangaroo lying in the middle of the
Stuart Highway, a strip of road almost 2,000 miles long that runs north-south through Australia’s center.
Ms. Williams has found about 20 live joeys around the Stuart Highway in the last five years.
Ms. Brennan-Kuss said the couple took in their first joey 15 years ago, and started their orphanage in 2008.
Tiny joeys, still clumsy hoppers, skitter around the kitchen floor, including Harvey, the joey Ms. Williams recently found.
Mark Kurtzer said that I avoid them if I can,
The guide also reminds good Samaritans to watch out for cars
and road trains — semitrailers with three or four trailers and 70-plus wheels — that constantly thunder along the highway.