Australia Fires Animals Extinct

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.

Australia fires animals extinct. Australias extinction rate for mammals is already the highest in the world but there are growing fears this years bushfires could cause localised extinctions. An animal rescuer carries a kangaroo burned in a bushfire. Millions of animals are dying from the Australian fires and the environment will suffer for years to come By Jessie Yeung CNN Updated 0042 GMT 0842 HKT January 9 2020.

Hastings River mouse. Australias wildfires have been terrifying to watch. Its almost three times an earlier estimate released in January.

Kangaroo Island dunnart. 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. The devastation from the Australia wildfires has reportedly wiped out a billion animals leading to what one scientist describes as an extinction crisis.

33m to wildlife and habitat recovery. Professor Chris Dickman told Metro that the fires mean the total dead could rise in the coming weeks and months as temperatures in the country start to rise again. CNN Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australias devastating bushfires -- almost triple the figure estimated in.

These animals are on the brink of extinction because of the Australian wildfires. Worse still Prof Dickman a leading ecologist from the University of. And if theyre not made extinct by this event.

Money will be spent on animal treatment food drops and pest animal control programmes. 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. Academics estimate more than half a billion creatures died in the bushfires.