00:00This tiny dingo puppy had been spotted surviving on bugs and whatever scraps she could find.
00:04When I first saw her, my heart just broke. She was just terrified.
00:08She was really emaciated. No one was able to capture her.
00:11It was clear that Yimdi had been through a lot.
00:13She was covered in ticks and parasites.
00:16And one of her back legs was clearly broken.
00:22Dingoes can't survive without their family in the wild.
00:24She had this really cute little cast and she was so, so scared of everything.
00:32Her dogs, cats, and other rescued dingoes helped show Yimdi how things worked around here.
00:37She became really comfortable with me. I had to pick her up and carry her everywhere.
00:45And very slowly, Yimdi started to let her guard down.
00:48I think she found a lot of comfort in having dog company.
00:51The terrified puppy is finally learning how to play, relax, and enjoy being part of a family.
00:57During the time we had her in Kersh, we actually had a cyclone and Yimdi was with us through all
01:02of that.
01:06Unfortunately, because Yimdi can't be released back in a while, she'll need a permanent home.
01:09The next goal for me was finding her a safe forever home.
01:13Fast forward about a year and a half later, Yimdi's now living her best life.
01:19Yimdi's family live on the Cape here, so they're the ones that we're really fighting for with the wild dingo
01:23project, the Ningaloo dingo project that we're doing.
01:26One of the hardest and saddest parts of rescuing dingoes is that if the wrong government official or wrong person
01:31gets there before I did, she would have been euthanised.
01:34We really hope one day that dingoes are a protected species here and our government agencies prioritise their well-being
01:41alongside the other wildlife in our area.
01:44But in the meantime, we'll be out there fighting for them.
01:52Brinkley Davies has spent most of her life in the water.
01:55As a marine biologist, free diver, and surfer, the ocean was once her entire world.
01:59When she started the Baloo Blue Foundation in 2016, her main focus was protecting marine life.
02:04But after years along the coast, she realised to protect the sea, you also need to protect the land.
02:08We have a little crested turn that we got in yesterday or the day before.
02:13And he's actually doing pretty well, but we've been getting a lot of these guys.
02:17So her work expanded even further.
02:19In Australia, dingoes play a somewhat similar role to wolves in North America.
02:23As native predators, they play an incredibly important part of keeping the ecosystem in balance.
02:27But much like wolves, they're also deeply misunderstood.
02:30Dingoes face threats from injuries, trapping, poison baiting, and even diseases like mange.
02:34And while mange can't be treated, there's one pretty big problem.
02:37First, you have to find the dingoes.
02:39The Ningaloo Coast where Brinkley lives is enormous, and these are wild animals who can travel across huge stretches of
02:44land.
02:46You gotta go to sleep, missy.
02:51What are you guys doing?
02:53What are you guys doing?
02:55So in 2024, Brinkley and the BalooBaloo Foundation launched a new project with a mission to better understand these wild
03:01dingoes so they can protect them.
03:03Brinkley and her team uses photos, videos, and sightings from the local community to identify individual dingoes, monitor their health,
03:09and locate animals who may need veterinarian care.
03:11Now they're hoping to expand that work with more trailer cameras and GPS trackers.
03:15While Yindi is unable to return back into the wild, so many others were able to do exactly that.
03:20They've been treated, recovered, and released back into the wild where they belong.
03:25And they're if they were to do exactly what's going on in these wildлив
03:28And then they're still ahead of тебя.
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