Nearly half a billion animals are feared dead after wildfires have ravaged much of the Australian wilderness in recent weeks.
The estimated death toll included up to 8,000 koalas, according to the federal environment minister Sussan Ley, who tells ABC Radio that up to 30 percent of the species in New South Wales may have been completely wiped out.
The area is home to a huge portion of Australia’s koalas, with an estimated population of between 15,000 to 28,000.Once the fires calm down or cease altogether an official estimation and assessment can be made, Ley says. But for now, it’s clear that hundreds of millions of animals haven’t survived. Koalas have been among the most vulnerable of Australia’s native animals during the wildfires because they are slow-moving and only eat leaves from the eucalyptus tree — which are filled with oil, making them highly flammable.that the fires have burned “so hot and so fast” that the mortality of local animals has been significant, especially those that reside in trees.‘There is such a big area now that is still on fire and still burning that we will probably never find the bodies,” Graham says.
The thermometer under the back verandah got to 48.9C today, not an official reading obviously, but it was enough to kill these sulphur crested cockatoos. I would like to hang them around Morrison’s neck, as well as a few of his mates. How good is wildlife dying of heat stress?
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