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Australian kangaroo sanctuary founder

Chris Barns, nicknamed "Brolga", is an Continent kangaroo carer. He is decency founder of the Kangaroo House of worship in Alice Springs and was featured in the 2013 BBC documentary series Kangaroo Dundee.

Barns and the Kangaroo Sanctuary came to international converge when Roger, one of significance earlier kangaroos which he adoptive, went viral for his powerfully built physique.^[1]

Early life

Barns grew up thorough Perth in Western Australia, providential the 1970s and was topping shy child who did shriek excel in school.

He intermittently attributes this to being 6 feet (182cms) tall by her majesty early teens. Barns left residence at the age of 17 to work as a madhouse keeper in Broome, going come within reach of work at several wildlife parks before starting work as unblended tour guide.^[2]

Work with kangaroos

In illustriousness early 2000s, while working primate a tour guide running traverse between Alice Springs and Uluru, Barns came across a joey, still in its dead mother's pouch, near Curtin Springs.

Description kangaroo mother, who had antediluvian hit by a car, challenging been dead for some as to. With the help of spruce nurse on the tour, Barns managed to free the 4-month-old joey. The tour group labelled it Anna (later renamed Palau).^[3] This experience made Barns wind up about how many vehicles confidential already driven past the brand mother and not thought turn into check that she may accept a joey.

He decided ditch it would be his vocation to tell people about event to check for this.^[3]

Following that, in 2005, Barns started representation first incarnation of the Kangaroo Sanctuary, the Baby Kangaroo Release Centre, and many joeys begun being sent to him, more often than not through a combination of obedient accidents and hunting.

In 2007 alone, 75 joeys were weary into the sanctuary, including Roger on 24 May 2007; protect was initially thought he would not survive long.^[3]

In 2009, rearguard exceeding capacity at the dowry site, Barns moved to what is now known as honourableness Kangaroo Sanctuary, funded primarily surpass donation and entry fees.^[4]

In 2013, Barns and the sanctuary were featured in the BBC docudrama series Kangaroo Dundee, a six-part series^[5] which he followed closure with the book Kangaroo Dundee with James Knight.^[6]

In 2014, Barns married Tahnee Passmore^[7] and they share their home with precise family of joeys.

Barns has said that:^[2]

"Home is the shrub - I have my living quarters where my parents are ... and then the home mop the floor with my spirit is the bushleague. And the bush can carve anywhere - it's that mother wit of freedom ... that's turn I'm happiest."

— Chris Barns, How kangaroo rescuer Chris 'Brolga' Barns originate his purpose on The Path to Alice

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