Your new favourite animal? 😍⁣ ⁣ Wombats are marsupials, meaning they have a pouch where their young grow and develop. Interestingly, a wombat's pouch faces backwards to protect the joey from dirt as their mother digs.⁣ ⁣ Footage by © BBC Studios NHU⁣ ⁣ #SevenWorldsOnePlanet⁣ | BBC Earth

230K views · 1.5K reactions | Canberra-based wombat rescuer Yolandi...

This project started with one sick wombat and quickly grew into a massive undertaking with a group of amazing volunteers, where we service just under 130 burrow-flaps every week. This is such an important message and it is critical that the right message is sent out into the world. Mange in wombats is a killer. It is treatable but without it, the wombat suffers a horrible and painful death. It is a costly exercise to treat wombats in the wild and I could not have done this without the volunteers