Australia Fires Animals Extinct
The devastation from the Australia wildfires has reportedly wiped out a billion animals leading to what one scientist describes as an extinction crisis.
Australia fires animals extinct. These animals are on the brink of extinction because of the Australian wildfires. The tiny animal lives in damp forests on the border between New South Wales and Victoria an area that has been worst hit by the fires. Some may go extinct.
Scientists say that fires may push some Australian species to the brink of extinction and climate change may make it hard to recover. Academics estimate more than half a billion creatures died in the bushfires. A year after Australias wildfires extinction threatens hundreds of species More than 500 species may now be endangered or extinct due to the natural disaster.
The hundreds of fires racing across Australia have captured the worlds attention and left an indelible scar on the continent with at least 27 human lives lost 15 million acres consumed and nearly 2000 homes destroyed. Now because of the fires Australias koalas and other unique species could be moving closer to extinction. Hastings River mouse.
Glossy black cockatoo. But there is a major grassroots effort here to make sure that doesnt happen. Worse still Prof Dickman a leading ecologist from the University of.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has labeled the Kangaroo Island dunnart located only on Southern Australias Kangaroo Island as critically endangered There were an estimated fewer than 500 animals before the fires according to the Australian government. So many Australian plants and animals are adapted to cope with fire. And if theyre not made extinct by this event.
Last month Australia pledged A50m 26m. More than 25 million acres has already been burned. An animal rescuer carries a kangaroo burned in a bushfire.