U.S. influencer who snatched baby wombat leaves Australia after outcry
An American influencer who uploaded a video of her grabbing a baby wombat, triggering widespread outrage, has left Australia.
SYDNEY — An American influencer who uploaded a video of her grabbing a baby wombat, triggering widespread outrage, has left Australia.
Sam Jones, who describes herself as an “outdoor enthusiast and hunter,” posted the now-deleted video to her 92,000 Instagram followers from an unknown location in Australia.
It showed her picking up the baby wombat from the side of a road as it struggled and hissed, and the animal’s distressed mother running after it. Jones later put the wombat back down.
Wombats are a marsupial found only in Australia and a protected species.
Jones has left the country, a person familiar with the situation who declined to be named said Friday, a day after the interior ministry said it was reviewing whether Jones had breached the conditions of her visa.
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