Title of Campaign, Moreton Bay Rail Koala Conservation - Subtitled-Mobile

Title of campaign, ‘Moreton Bay Rail Koala Conservation’- Subtitled-Mobile

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Scene opens slightly as Mango Murphy engages in discussion. Rail Line background of a train and the regional locality of Moreton. / V/o / “The Moreton Bay Rail project has three funders; the Federal Government, the State Government and the…”
Scene pans to a branch of tree. / V/o / “…local government which is Moreton Bay Regional Council and is a, is a 13 kilometer rail line from… ”
Scene pans back to Mango Murphy / V/o / “Petrie to Kippa-Ring and has been around for a long time, it was mentioned in….”
“If you speed through roadworks you
Rail line screen shot of Moreton Bay line / V/o / “Hansards in 1890 and then commonly called the rail to Redcliffe. And land for…”
Scene pans back to Mango Murphy’ / V/o / “…the corridor was purchased n the 70s and in the intervening period…”
Scene opens to a Koala on a tree, pans the Koala hopping away on a blue gum tree.’ / V/o / “…has become a refuge for a lot of Koalas. So that when we started this project in”
Koala logo. / V/o / “…about two years ago we assumed that there was ”
Screen opens pans to man on a mobile satellite. / V/o / “… probably 60 to 80 koalas in the corridor…”
Scene opens and zoom of a mobile device / V/o / “…and at present we are monitoring in excess of 300 koalas. “
Scene pans back to Mango Murphy as he describe the Rail Line. / V/o / “So the contract was awarded for the design construction of the rail line to Thiess in early August 13. The contract is administered by an integrated team from Queensland Rail…”
Scene opens to a forest of trees.’ / V/o / “…Moreton Bay Regional Council and Transport and Main Roads and the commission....”
Zoom to a koala on a tree.’ / V/o / “…for the koala monitoring commenced…”
Zoom to moving EVE commission research track. ’ / V/o / “18 months before the contract award and…”
Zoom to a EVE researcher / V/o / “…EVE were commissioned to undertake this leading research.”
Scene pans back to Mango Murphy. / V/o / “This is a great story, something we are really proud of as a, as a team and everybody involved in the project.”
Scene opens slightly out of focus, at bush showing a man carrying a thicket. Camera pans down to a man in an orange shirt and hat carrying koalas on cages. / V/o / “I just welcome you to sit back and enjoy this leading edge research and just shows you what can happen…”
Scene of a captured koala sleeping. / V/o / “…when you meet your social obligations in a major infrastructure project, thank you.”
Scene pans from a koala sleeping to a female researcher in discussion of data manipulation / V/o / “All the information that we are getting all the data that we are getting, it really helps to inform the design in terms of the location and design of underpasses the…”
“If you speed through roadworks you
Camera pans to a tile of one way valves .’ / V/o / ”…fauna fencing the one way valves all of that sort of thing, but it’s been probably…”
Scenery change to a tractor on clearing program.
’ / V/o / “…the greatest benefit during clearing. We’ve been able to plan all of the clearing programs…”
Pans to another animated tractor on another area.. / V/o / around the densely inhabited areas
Zoom to a satellite mobile devise
.’ / V/o / “…and we’ve been able to protect the Koalas during the actual clearing…”
Scene pans to road parked truck of an EVE and zooms to the EVE logo.’ / V/o / “…because each and every morning that we have clearing programmed, our Endeavor Veterinary Ecology koala trackers are going out …”
Pans to a group of EVE koala catchers on an identification program of fauna spot catching. Zooms to a satellite catcher having a visual of a koala on a tree. / V/o / “…with the fauna spotter catchers and identifying where the koalas are within the clearing zone. This has been really great we can do that not only by the GPS trackers, but we’ve got the LX collars.”
Scene opens slightly out of focus, capturing a koala with a LX collar. / V/o / “...that show on a website where every koala is and where their movements have been overnight, so we can locate each koala …”
Cut to a close up of a hand of a catcher using a mobile satellite device. / V/o / “…what tree they are in, tag that off and make sure that the clearing doesn’t go anywhere near it.”
Cuts into a tree sections on which a koala is hanging on. / V/o / “That’s not only being great to protect the koalas but it’s actually helped us with the clearing program itself, we haven’t had…”
A group of men working on a clearing site to / V/o / “…substantial delays, we’ve been able to move clearing into other areas…”
Zoom to another construction site, a truck is in motion.’ / V/o / “…if it’s full of koalas and we’ve been able to protect the fauna while we are doing it.”
Pans to an EVE researcher as he engages in a the discussion ’ / V/o / “Endeavor Veterinary Ecology has been engaged to conduct a koala tagging and monitoring program, and this program includes not only habitat that’s in the rail corridor but also adjacent to the rail corridor. And it involves catching all of the koalas living in that habitat and conducting a monitoring program for the duration of the rail construction project.“
Zoom to an EVE researcher . / V/o / “And also we have been engaged to perform a koala translocation project for the koalas that are going to be directly displaced by the construction activities that really have no decent habitat left for them to stay in.”
Cut to a close scene of the EVE researcher. / V/o / “We’ve got a team of koala specialist including koala capture specialist and what you are about to see is one of our project koalas being captured for the koala tagging and monitoring program.”
Cut to a thicket and trees, men on orange reflectors on a tagging and monitoring program. Pans to a man with a / V/o / “The reason why we are trying to capture this particular koala is to put a LX collar tracking system on him so what that will do is…”
Zooms to a portable satellite tracker device.’ / V/o / “…allow us to track...”
Pans to a man with a tracker.’ / V/o / “…that koala remotely without physically having to go…”
Zoom to a man with a hat and a tracker showing a descriptive map of the koala with LX collars zooms to the location. / V/o / “…locate it and visually site it every single time. So what it will do, this is a map of all of the koalas that, that do have the LX system on it.”
Zoom to a trackers finding a visual for the koalas pans to the satellite devise / V/o / “So I will be able to go in and just bring out any koalas name, tap on it and it shows exactly where it, where it is…”
Cuts to a trees on which a koala is situated, zooms on the portable satellite devise and pans back to the tracker / V/o / “…its current location where it’s been, it shows its tracks exactly where it’s been and essentially showing us what area of habitat it’s using and potentially any restrictions that its experiencing.”
Scene pans to the tracker and zooms to the satellite devise of a mp on koalas. / V/o / “So if you look at this particular area now we’ve got six other koalas it’s in a small, small area, and you can actually see on that, on that map the project area and the cleared area.”
Scenery cuts out to a koala hanging on a tree and pans back to the tracker. / V/o / “90, 95% of the 200 koalas that we are tracking….”
Pans to a tracker on a tagging mission, climbing a tree. / V/o / “…already have this system fitted to them. So we are going to climb up and encourage him to come down where he will jump to ground and suddenly be captured by some catchers on the ground.”
Scene pans to the trees in the environment whilst cuts to the tracker on tree with a maneuvering pole. / V/o / “A big part of using this technique is… you’ll notice I’ve got an open space behind me that, so this big long pole doesn’t foul…”
Zooms to the trees pans to the maneuver pole as the koala climbs down the tree.
‘’ / V/o / “…behind me as I am trying to maneuver him down. This is a big male and he’s not too scared of me I think so, there we go he’s just decide well I think I’m going to climb away from this, I’ve just got to keep it moving now.” And Brian is going to pull him down so figured out a plan.
Tracker mumbling as the koala is captured pans to the trackers and on a cage. / V/o / “You can see there he tried to us swerve a bit and as you get him to the ground and he’s successful been captured so he’ll be off to the vet now. He’ll have his tag replaced and he’ll be back out here within hours.
Pans and zooms’ to an EVE researcher / V/o / “Once, once the koala is caught it comes into the vet surgery and every koala that comes in on the project gets a full health check at the start and then every six months after that we recapture the koala and do a health check again.”
Zoom to the EVE researcher as he continues to describe the koala monitoring, pans to a koala on a tree. / V/o / “So at each health check it’s a comprehensive examination so that we make sure that we detect all of the conditions that are common in koalas and we make sure that when we’re sending them back out into the wild that they are healthy…”
Scene zooms to the EVE researcher as he makes bodily signs on the description of the koala monitoring. / V/o / “…And, and w need to recapture them every six months to make sure that they don’t get Chlamydia disease which is quite common or if they do, that we make sure that we treat them promptly.”
Scene opens to the EVE researcher and zooms / V/o / “At the comprehensive vet examination we not only collect a…”
Cut to a close up of a hand placing orange cones on the road. / V/o / “…bunch of diagnostic examples but each koala gets a micro chip and an ear tag and also the telemetry devices so that would be a collar, a radio collar or a bio telemetry and also an anklet.”
Cut to the EVE researcher demonstrating on the devises used on monitoring the koala. / V/o / “And we make sure that we have two devices on each koala so that if one falls off which they commonly do that we can always find the koala again and reapply that tag that’s dropped off.“
Scene pans to a man with a captured koala on a cage on an tagging project. Zooms to a koala on a table / V/o / “This project is by far the biggest and most thorough one ever done ever on koalas, so we are very keen for the…”
Zooms to a koala being tagged, pans to a EVE researcher.’ / V/o / “…data to actually be analyzed in depth. So, so at the moment we provide a fairly I guess rudimentary analysis of the data you know the crude stuff, but there is so much other data that’s embedded in what we do that has a lot of value in terms of koala health and you know conservation that we are very keen for researchers at the Universities to analyze and use.”
Zooms to a the EVE researcher on an description of the koala monitoring program’ / V/o / “And what this project shows us is that if you don’t go in and measure this stuff then what you are left with is assumptions and those assumptions maybe correct but often they are not.”
Pans on the adjacent surgical tools, zooms to the EVE researcher / V/o / “So if you are, if you are trying to design mitigation or you know offset measures to benefit the population then you are really doing it with the best data possible, where if you don’t collect this stuff then you are in the dark.”
Cuts to the lab EVE researcher showing a devise for the tagging of the koala. / V/o / “So this is the transmitter that will actually go on the collar and that enables us to find the collar if it drops off…”
Pans to a transmitter held by the researcher. / V/o / “…because the GPS reading that we get from the collars is not exactly accurate you know we may, if the collar drops off and we are just using GPS we may have a you know 30 by 30 meter area to try and find this collar.”
Scene opens slightly out of focus to the pinger of the transmitter. / V/o / “And so we put, put this little pinger on and that enables us to find it quickly and it’s also a backup in case they get the anklet off, so we’ve got, we’ve got a fair bit of redundancy built into this system.”
Cuts to a koala on a surgical table, pans to the collar . / V/o / “So the weight of these collars, particularly the electronics component is far better than anything else on the market…”
Pans back to lab environment. / V/o / “…but unfortunately to balance the color, in other words to make sure that this part stays on...”
Zooms to a koala on a cage surrounded by a thicket of leaves pans to the transmitter being held by the researcher. / V/o / “the back of the koalas neck instead of sliding around by gravity to underneath the neck, we have to put a weight on. So that brings the total weight of the collar up to about 250 grams when the weight is sitting there. So it’s about comparable with some of the GPS collars on the market. “
A tracker on an orange shirt on a release program of a koala named Carlos. / V/o / “We are just going to release Carlos here, this is his point of capture…”
Zoom to a spot of blue gum on the point of capture of the koala pans on the tracker releaseing the kola from a cage and as it climbs a blue gum. Trackers talking on distant voices. / V/o / “…we are bringing him back to this same spot because this is his home range. We are going to release him into this blue gum; behind me here it’s one of their favorite food trees, so let’s see how we go.”
Pans to a branches of the blue gum, Mango Murphy talks on the background. Zooms to a koala / V/o / “I hope you enjoyed that video. To me it’s just another example of how we can build a major infrastructure project and work with the community the environment and protecting koala’s one of Australia’s greatest assets.”
Cuts out to a ’koala on a blue gum zooms to a koala on a tagging program. / V/o / “There’s some great legacies that will come out of the research some great legacies, will come out of the research…”
Cuts out to a koala lying in the lab / “…some great legacies will come out of the project and it’s something that all the project team is very proud of.”