'Half a billion wild animals burned alive for our cars and lights and flights, just now.' anohni
circulated of the badly burned creature scrambling straight into a nearby raging brushfire. Unfortunately, Lewis' injuries killed him, but not before he became a figurehead of precisely why climate change denial is so dangerous.
According to Mark Graham, an ecologist with the Nature Conservation Council, koalas"have no capacity to move fast enough to get away" from fires spreading across treetops. Graham added that because so much of New South Wales is still burning, there is a grim likelihood many koala bodies will never be discovered and more population decline can be expected.
One way to help: the mid-north coast region of New South Wales houses a well-known koala hospital, which has taken in burned animals since the fires began. The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital has an active GoFundMe campaign to aid in covering medical costs. So far, the hospital has raised more than $1.3 million since being established in September, reportedly the largest amount raised on the site in Australian history.
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