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"Nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia’s
devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020, according to scientists
who have revealed for the first time the scale of the impact on the
country’s native wildlife.
The Guardian has learned that an estimated 143 million mammals, 180
million birds, 51 million frogs and a staggering 2.5 billion reptiles
were affected by the fires that burned across the continent. Not all the
animals would have been killed by the flames or heat, but scientists say
the prospects of survival for those that had withstood the initial
impact was “probably not that great” due to the starvation, dehydration
and predation by feral animals – mostly cats – that followed.
An interim report based on work by 10 scientists from five institutions,
commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), suggests the toll
from the fires goes much further than an earlier estimate of more than 1
billion animals killed."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "shameful that #Australian government doesn’t
do more by addressing #climatecrisis"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
