Australia’s Animal Rescue Craft Guild yesterday said that it has been deluged with offers of help after putting out a call for volunteers to make bat wraps, joey pouches, bird’s nests, possum boxes, koala mittens and other items for marsupials. Donations to the volunteer-run group have come in from as far afield as the US, the UK, Hong Kong, France and Germany. Many have crocheted, knitted and sewed a range of items, including koala mittens for burned paws and pouches for joeys who have lost their mothers. “I’m planning to make as many as possible and am asking fabric outlets for fabric donations to sew,” Mackay said. “I looked at the list of what is most needed versus my fairly basic sewing capability and decided I could contribute the bat wraps,” Watts said.

Source: Taipei Times January 06, 2020 16:30 UTC