A Quest to Save Baby Kangaroos on a Lonely Australian Highway<br />By SERENA SOLOMONJUNE 26, 2017<br />JUNE 23, 2017<br />COOBER PEDY, Australia — A few weeks ago, Deb Williams saw another dead kangaroo lying in the middle of the<br />Stuart Highway, a strip of road almost 2,000 miles long that runs north-south through Australia’s center.<br />Ms. Williams has found about 20 live joeys around the Stuart Highway in the last five years.<br />Ms. Brennan-Kuss said the couple took in their first joey 15 years ago, and started their orphanage in 2008.<br />Tiny joeys, still clumsy hoppers, skitter around the kitchen floor, including Harvey, the joey Ms. Williams recently found.<br />Mark Kurtzer said that I avoid them if I can,<br />The guide also reminds good Samaritans to watch out for cars<br />and road trains — semitrailers with three or four trailers and 70-plus wheels — that constantly thunder along the highway.
