Tourism Tasmania is kindly requesting that visitors to Maria Island, an uninhabited island and wildlife sanctuary off Tasmania’s northwest coast, promise to stop obsessing over #wombatselfies and take a pledge to that effect.
The pledge reads, “Wombats, when you trundle past me I pledge I will not chase you with my selfie stick, or get too close to your babies. I will not surround you, or try and pick you up.” The pledge was considered necessary when several selfies turned up online featuring tourists interacting with wombats who clearly did not want to be interacted with.
