Whilst the advice is normally to not feed wildlife, the "rare situation" of both severe drought and bushfires means that "desperate times call for desperate measures," Australian Conservation Foundation Nature Campaigner Jess Abrahams said.
"I can't underline how urgent it is, and we need to take real action on climate change nationally and globally if we want to protect our beautiful wildlife," Mr Abrahams said. In a statement on Sunday, the ACF in collaboration with other environment groups including World Wide Fund and The Wilderness Society, urged Environment Minister Susan Ley to develop "an effective and responsive national environmental law framework" to recover wildlife and heritage places.
Yet Animalia Wildlife Shelter in Victoria has warned those who discover injured koalas not to give them water through a water bottle, due to a risk of the water getting into koalas' lungs and causing potentially fatal complications.
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