A wildlife volunteer on Kangaroo Island says he cries every day as he works around the clock desperately trying to save the animals stranded in the fire-torn bushland.<br /><br />Kai Wild travelled to Adelaide to volunteer for the rescue operation at the end of January, lending his tree-climbing expertise to bring in injured koalas.<br /><br />But he has described being overcome with emotion, claiming a lack of support services is leading to koala deaths that could have been prevented. <br />Today was another extraordinarily full on day. I didn't cry during breakfast but I did cry in rage for what I think is the first time in my life,' he wrote on Saturday.<br /><br />'Hang tight because the hospital is currently overflowing, Koalas are starting to starve and we can't afford to stuff this up.' <br /><br />Kai Wild is among those helping to recover and rehabilitate the wildlife on the island. <br /><br />Since arriving on January 30 he's helped to rescue a total of 18 koalas, including four orphaned joeys. <br /><br />But four days in and he's described the struggle to deal with the devastation. <br /><br />'While we were driving around this afternoon we found the thing that I have been dreading and the thing that I'm here to stop from happening,' he wrote. <br /><br />'I've seen plenty of koalas that have burnt to death. 100s. I've seen koalas that are decomposing because they starved weeks ago but I haven't seen a koala that has died from starvation recently, in the time that I've been here. Until today.' <br />He shared the tale in a plea for more support services, after finding the first body of a koala which survived the fires only to starve to death.<br /><br />'So today I kind of realised that I'm the only one that's going to come out and put koala feed stations in these plantations where the koalas are about to starve,' he said.<br /><br />'Even though there are organisations saying there are 120 people out here to feed the animals. Apparently the plantations are dangerous.'<br />
