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WOMAN: I think the Otways has places
where you can stand
and feel like you might be the first person ever to have been there.
It's spectacularly beautiful.
It's an incredible spot for seeing wildlife.
The Ecolodge is all about engaging people in nature
and the work that we do through the Conservation Ecology Centre,
so giving people a chance to see wildlife in the wild
in the company of people who are working to conserve it.
Koalas are a very important Australian species.
They're a marsupial that's known right around the world.
Here they're found particularly throughout the manna gum woodlands,
which are in decline,
and we're doing a lot of work in order to address
the causes of that decline
and ways in which we can stop that
and work to restore the habitats to ensure the future of the koalas.
The mother koala raises the joey entirely on her own,
and it's about six months old
when their little heads come out of the pouch for the first time.
And they crawl into the pouch, which in koalas is upside down.
Inside the pouch, there's little teats which the joey attaches to.
The *** swells inside the joey's mouth
to keep them firmly attached in place
and stop them falling out of the pouch.
In the rainforest, you find creatures like the glow-worms,
bower birds, birds like the rufous bristlebird.
There are platypus living in the lake at Lake Elizabeth,
kangaroos out through the grasslands and echidnas in the heathlands.
There's, um, yeah, so, so many different species.
I really hope that our little daughter
will be able to head out into the bush
and see the sorts of animals that we can see there
and, hopefully, if we as a generation have done our job well,
see species which aren't commonly seen now.
If we can do a better job, then... then that will be just wonderful.
SONG: ♪ Hey, make-believer
♪ If the world is made of wool
♪ We'll be diving off of mountain tops
♪ Cascading into pools. ♪