Australia Fires Animals Dead

Footage of hundreds of animal carcasses lining the roads in Batlow New South Wales Australia as fires continue to rageSubscribe to TIME httppostSu.

Australia fires animals dead. Charred bodies of helpless forest-dwelling animals like koalas and herds of kangaroos were found by volunteers along with reports of cockatoos falling dead out of trees. Theyre left to rot. This happened for almost 100 feral horses that died.

Uprooting families and claiming lives bushfires raged across Australia from June 2019 to February 2020. Authorities previously suggested the fires could have wiped out more than 500million animals. As bushfires continue to ravage the country Australias Defence Force is in a rush against time to bury dead livestock and wild animals killed by the flames.

Its almost three times an earlier estimate released in January. Last week an ecologist at the University of Sydney estimated that nearly half a billion animals had been wiped out since Australias devastating wildfires started spreading in. Australias wildfires have killed 29 people and left millions of animals dead over the last several months.

The number of animals feared dead in Australias wildfire catastrophe has now soared to over 1 billion experts say. Since September unprecedented bushfires have razed an estimated 25 million acres in Australia. Authorities estimate that up to 480 million animal lives have already been lost since the fires began 4 months ago.

An animal rescuer carries a kangaroo burned in a bushfire. Australias worst wildfires in recorded history. Chris Dickman an ecologist at the University of Sydney told HuffPost that last weeks estimation that 480 million mammals birds and reptiles were feared dead was a conservative estimation and exclusive to the state of New South Wales.

Nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced by Australias devastating bushfire season. There is a widely-reported estimate that almost half a billion 480 million animals have been killed by the bush fires in Australia. A staggering 1 billion animals are now estimated dead in Australias fires The number of kangaroos koalas and others killed keeps skyrocketing.