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Us -Influencer who caught baby Wombat has left Australia

Sam Jones, a US influencer who Briefly snapped with a baby from his desperate motherAnd uploaded the film material in social media has left Australia.

The Australian minister of interior matters, Tony Burke, had previously said that his department had checked whether it could revoke Ms. Jones's visa, but the BBC understands that it left the country on its own.

“There has never been a better time to be a baby bat,” said Burke in a short explanation on Friday and celebrated Jones' departure.

Anger broke out throughout Australia after Jones posted a video in which she took a baby and took off the roadside while laughing and running away from the disturbed mother.

The video also shows how the Baby Wombat hisses in need before Jones puts it back into the bush.

Jones, who also bears the name Samantha Strable, has almost 100,000 supporters and describes himself in her Instagram profile as a “outdoor enthusiast and hunter”. Since then she has made her account privately and deleted her contribution.

Her video was quickly made with a widespread conviction, with Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese called the incident as “outrage”.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong called the video “terrible”.

On Friday, the opposition leader Peter Dutton said that he thought it was “a cruel act” and he was “happy” that the influencer had now left.

An online petition in which Jones is deported from Australia received more than 30,000 signatures.

However, since Jones had not been charged or was considered a threat to the country, the government might have had no reasons to cancel its visa.

Ms. Jones said in comments that have been deleted since then: “Overall, the baby was carefully held and then released again.”

“They went into the bush together, which was completely intact,” she wrote. “I never drive wild animals that are injured by my TU.”

But Wildlife experts have considered Jones' law as “obvious disregard” for native wildlife.

The Wombat Protection Society said that it was shocked to see that the “abuse of a Wombat Joey in an obvious snapshot for” social media likes “”.

Suzanne Milthorpe, head of campaign at World Animal Protection Australia, told BBC Newsday that the publication of such a video for “cheap content” was “unacceptable”.

“For this baby it must have been like a huge predator to lift it and take it away,” she said.

Wombats, which are located in Australia, are a legally protected species nationwide. Baby Wombats have a strong connection to their mothers, and every separation can be worrying and harmful, say conservationists.