BATHURST’S Kangaroo Project is gaining notoriety and is going to be featured on national television.
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A film crew were in the city last week filming an episode of the children’s television program Bush- wacked, which focused on the search for the white wallaroo.
The program, which airs on ABC 3, is shown in 44 countries.
Fittingly, the show features a young Wiradjuri presenter Kamil Ellis. Bathurst and Mount Panorama (Wahluu) are part of Wiradjuri country.
Mint Productions, the producers of the popular program, contacted University of Technology researcher Dr Daniel Ramp after reading about the white wallaroos on Mount Panorama in the Sydney Morning Herald.
An episode of Bushwacked has been selected as a finalist at the prestigious Prix Jeunesse awards in Munich next year
Members of the Kangaroo Project saw this as a fantastic opportunity to showcase Bathurst’s wildlife to an appreciative international audience.
It is the second time in the past 12 months that Bathurst has been a focal point for documentary makers.
Earlier this year, Korean filmmakers arrived in Bathurst to film kangaroos in the Boundary Road Reserve.
Dr Ramp, from the Kangaroo Project, has also been in Bathurst replacing the data logger antennas.
During that time he has also been working with the film crew.
Co-ordinator of the Kangaroo Project Helen Bergen said that the ear tags on the tagged kangaroos were transmitting electronic signals which the data loggers pick up and record.
This is a way of mapping kangaroo movements and determining general territories because kangaroos are firmly bonded to a place.
She said there was already some interesting data coming out.
“It’s been quite a thrill to see which darted kangaroos are where, especially given different volunteers know “their” kangaroos, having been involved in darting and watching over them. Some volunteers have named their ’roos,” Ms Bergen said.
