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<\/p>\nPolice are investigating how a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch was shot with an arrow on the New South Wales Central Tablelands near Lithgow.<\/p>\n
Wallerawang community members are looking for the injured animal after it was spotted with an arrow piercing its back at Lake Wallace on Saturday, July 4.<\/p>\n
Volunteer and macropod coordinator for WIRES Julie Eggenhuizen said she felt distressed that the animal got away before she could treat it.<\/p>\n
“We’re all concerned that she isn’t going to be okay and that she’s out there suffering and we can’t find her,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We lose sleep over that, because we know there’s an injured animal and we can’t do anything about it because we can’t find them.”<\/p>\n
A member of the public called the wildlife rescue organisation on July 4 after they saw the injured animal on their morning walk.<\/p>\n
Ms Eggenhuizen assembled a team of six to find the kangaroo and attempted to surround it with nets.<\/p>\n
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Julie Eggenhuizen is worried the injury could become infected. (Supplied: Julie Eggenhuizen)<\/p>\n
She said the animal was “skittish” and could not be captured, so the group waited in bushland watching it for three hours while a tranquilliser operator came from Sydney to help.<\/p>\n
But then boys on dirt bikes drove through the reserve and scared the mob.<\/p>\n
“They all bolted into the forest, and there was no way we could get close to her again,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It was a real shame.”<\/p>\n
Ms Eggenuizen said she spotted the animal through her binoculars and it appeared the arrow had come out of its back.<\/p>\n
“She would still be suffering; she’s still got a wound. If you’ve had an arrow go through your skin, it’s going to take time to heal,” she said.<\/p>\n
“These sorts of injuries that we see are just people having a sport.”<\/p>\n
Ms Eggenguizen was concerned the wound could become infected and leave the kangaroo unwell.<\/p>\n
She said there were “lots and lots” of Wallerawang community members going on walks to find the animal.<\/p>\n
“The best we can hope for is that it was minor and that she heals and goes on to live a happy life and take care of her little joey.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating how a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch was shot with an arrow on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[104754,64,63,126197,5701,375762,1158,128,2174,375761,338,62929],"class_list":["post-801123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-arrow","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-joey","tag-kangaroo","tag-lake-wallace","tag-police","tag-science","tag-shot","tag-wallerawang","tag-wildlife","tag-wires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}