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We share and address articles that are of interest to us here at WildAid and we consider relevant to our readers since they have an association to biodiversity and wildlife welfare. Though we are a registered charity and our work is fixed in the UK the un-precedented destruction of Australia's wildlife and wild places from the bush fires is alarming and has un-warranted pressure for wildlife carers:

Around 480 million animals are feared to have died in the bush fires sweeping Eastern Australia.

Ecologists at the University of Sydney estimate around 480 million mammals, birds and reptiles have been killed, directly or indirectly, by the devastating blazes since they began in September 2019. 

“The fires have burnt so hot and so fast that there has been significant mortality of animals in the trees, We will probably never find the bodies,” Mr Graham told a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry earlier in December 2019. 

“We’ve lost such a massive area of koala habitat that I think we can say without any doubt there will be ongoing declines in koala populations from this point forward.”

The scorched regions include nature reserves in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and parts of the Gondwana rainforests — which have existed since the time of the dinosaurs and are the most extensive area of subtropical rainforest in the world.

The exceptional cases of injured and mortally wounded wildlife demonstrates the professional conduct of all involved in animal and wildlife welfare. We ought to recognise this to all those across the world. 

Main photograph: A burnt koala named Anwen, rescued from Lake Innes Nature Reserve, receives formula at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital ICU in Port Macquarie, Australia November 7, 2019. Picture taken November 7, 2019. Stefica Nicol Bikes, Reuters

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