An American influencer who was filmed while moving a wild baby from his mother in distress in Australia said that she was “really sorry” and received thousands of death threats about the incident.
Sam Jones, who qualifies as “outdoor and Hunter passionate”, was filmed by picking up the Joey on the side of a road, while laughing and running towards a car, while the mother pursues them.
It sparked a huge reaction, with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanian challenging her to “take a baby crocodile from her mother and see how you go”.
In a long declaration On his Instagram pageJones says she was trying to get the animals safely from the road.
She said, as we can see in the video, that the mother comes out of the road, but the baby does not do so, and Jones picks it up. She says she crossed the road “so as not to tear Joey away from her mother, but fear, she could attack me.”
“The instant judgment that I brought at these times has never been a place of evil or stealing a Joey,” said the press release.
She said that the video was “not staged, nor for entertainment”, and in its excitement of the moment, “acted too quickly and did not provide the necessary context for online viewers”.
In the second part of his statement, Jones launched a scathing attack on Australian animal laws, including wombs, kangaroos, horses, deer and pigs.
Australia has various slaughter laws and regulations that arouse controversy and divide the nation.
Wombats, from Australia, are a protected species, but permits can be obtained to reduce them if they are deemed necessary.
A The online petition supporting its expulsion received more than 40,000 signatures. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Tony Burke, said that his department examined if he could revoke the Jones visa. However, the BBC understands that it has left the country of its own will.
Jones, who is also called Samantha Stable, has more than 95,000 subscribers on Instagram.
Environmentalists warned that Jones’ terrible “behavior could have seriously harm the wombs.
The Wombat Protection Society said it had been shocked to see “mismanagement of a Wombat Joey in an apparent tearing for” social media likes “.
“”[She] Then, the vulnerable baby on a country road-potentially putting it the risk of becoming a roadkill, “he noted in his statement, adding that he was clear if the Joey had found his mother.
“I caught a baby bookat,” said Jones in the video, while the Joey could be heard whistling and struggling in his grip.
The shooting of man can be heard laughing: “Look at the mother, that pursues her!”
His legend in the post now deleted said: “My dream of holding a Wombat was realized! Baby and mom slowly dandinated in the bush.”
“The baby was carefully held for a minute in total, then released to mom,” she wrote in the comments, responding to criticism.
“They moved away from the bush together completely unscathed. I never capture the fauna that will be injured by my fact.”
Animal rights organizations have criticized Jones. People for the ethical treatment of animals, or PETA, described video as “explanatable fauna content” and urged people to “stop treating fauna as an accessory”.
