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Director(s):
KOCH (ROSIE)
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Producer(s):
ARTE GEIE, MEDIEN KONTOR Movie GMBH
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2014
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Language(s):
German, English, Spanish, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
Tasmania is Australia's natural wonder and home to a unique animal kingdom. It is paradise on Earth. But it is a paradise which became hell for its devil.
An insidious disease is killing off the Tasmanian devil population. When the fate of the small carnivore became known, a wave of compassion was set off among Australians. Whereas in the past people thought the animal was ugly and frightening because of its bloodcurdling screeches, today the marsupials are looked upon benevolently almost everywhere: Researchers are working feverishly on a vaccine to protect against the cancer which is transmitted by a virus, or are capturing the sick animals in the wild. The pups are removed from the pouches of their dying mothers and thus protected from becoming infected.
The little devils have people like Greg Irons to thank for all this attention. Greg is Australia's youngest wildlife sanctuary director, and is also in charge of a research project in the only part of Tasmania where healthy devils still live. He works tirelessly and passionately to save the Tasmanian icon.