THERE aren’t many people like Albury’s Craige Sherwood who went out of his way to save a koala he found injured near Beechworth.
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But for his trouble, Mr Sherwood didn’t get a lot of help when it came to trying to find somewhere to take it.
Having brought the animal back to life by giving him chest compressions, he returned to NSW to find there were no rescue groups north of the border who were legally allowed to take the koala.
Fortunately, one of them was able to put Mr Sherwood in touch with the Kangaloola shelter in Yackandandah where the koala, now named “Handsome Craige”, is making a recovery.
Not surprisingly, Mr Sherwood has found wildlife carers are just as frustrated as he is by a situation where there is no formal agreement between the NSW and Victorian governments to provide for the transfer of animals to an appropriate carer.
In Albury that is less of a problem because there are reciprocal services not too far away across the border but further along the Murray River the situation can become far more difficult.
Perhaps the state governments can put a memorandum of understanding between the states for wildlife care on their list of border anomalies for discussion.
