In an incredible act of determination, wildlife carers have completed an eight-week search in swampy, mosquito-filled conditions in south-east NSW to rescue an orphaned wombat joey.
Heather Brown, a Bombala-based volunteer with LAOKO (Looking After Our Kosciuszko Orphans), found an adult female wombat in January after it had been shot near her spine and hit by a car near Tantawangalo.
The wombat was euthanased but Ms Brown, along with her partner Ross, decided to embark on a mammoth search for her joey.
