George the wombat was rescued after his mother was hit and killed by a car. | National Geographic

Chapter 2: treating bub (Named Teeny) first Usually doing a rescue or mange treatment with two wombats simultaneously is incredibly difficult. In this case they made it easy as bub wandered off and I was able to sneak up on her and give her treatment for sarcoptic mange. She looks bad but it can still be turned around. She is aware of me, no obvious wounds and no decaying smell of infection. As always I prefer my trusty extendable pole so I can get her gently and not have to chase her or scare h

Canberra-based wombat rescuer Yolandi Vermaark of Wombat Rescue is on the frontline of fighting mange in wombats. Here, Australian Geographic follows her on one of her typical weekends, which involves looking for joeys in roadkill and treating a small population of wombats with cydectin that helps get rid of mange. It's a hard story to watch, but Yolandi believes all Australians need to open their eyes to the incredible suffering wombats with mange endure. | Australian Geographic

Wombat carers typically do whatever they can to make their wombats as comfortable as possible. It is not always easy as they require such specialist care. We built this burrow a while ago but noticed that the level was high and the boys weren't digging it out. It seems a lot of soil seeped in through the holes in the side (these are trench-liners) and they have flooded a few times. So we rebuilt them. Better. We covered the holes, made it deeper and at the end installed an igloo kennel that will