Chris brolga barnes biography
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How kangaroo rescuer Chris 'Brolga' Barns found his purpose on The Road to Alice
It is early morning and a human call travels across the red, scrubby earth of central Australia. Little heads begin to pop up all over the landscape. Soon, a mob of red kangaroos is bounding towards a tall man in an Akubra, holding a feed bucket.
Breakfast is up at The Kangaroo Sanctuary, just outside Alice Springs.
There are currently about 30 kangaroos at the sanctuary, run by Chris 'Brolga' Barns.
Most were brought in as orphaned joeys. A few were once kept as pets. Some joeys have been brought in by Aboriginal people after being orphaned by hunting.
"When they heard about this tall skinny bloke (who) set up this place in town where people can drop a baby kangaroo, they would travel out of their way - In the car with 10 people and three dogs is a baby kangaroo that they're bringing in to give me," Mr Barns told One Plus One's Jane Hutcheon.
"I decided education would be my life – teaching people how to become kangaroo rescuers themselves."
After breakfast the kangaroos disappear back into the bush reserve.
It has been 10 years since Chris 'Brolga' Barns pulled his first joey from the pouch of a kangaroo, killed by a vehicle
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Kangaroo Dundee: Meet Chris ‘Brolga’ Barnes, the top Aussie bloke who has become a surrogate mother to orphaned kangaroos
- Aussie man is surrogate mum to hundreds of orphaned kangaroo joeys
- Chris 'Brolga' Barnes was dubbed 'Kangaroo Dundee' in a BBC series about his work caring for joeys
- Brolga was a tour guide then quit his job to start up his own kangaroo sanctuary in Alice Springs
- He was a finalist for the Australian of the Year awards in 2014
- The Kangaroo Sanctuary has saved over 200 orphaned kangaroos since 2005
- Nicknamed 'Brolga' - the Aboriginal word for the Crane - because he's 6ft 7in tall
By ALEX LAZCANO FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
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Dubbed 'Kangaroo Dundee', Chris 'Brolga' Barnes has been saving orphaned kangaroo joeys in Outback Australia for the past nine years.
While working as a tour guide in the Northern Territory, he realised that people in remote areas of Australia were looking for a place to take orphaned or injured animals, so he opened The Baby Kangaroo Rescue Centre.
It was later redeveloped and expanded into the larger Kangaroo Sanctuary just outside of Alice Springs.
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Chris 'Brolga' Barnes hand rears orphaned kangaroo joeys at his Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs
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