'Entire species are being wiped out': Ecologists say half a billion animals may have been killed by [View all]

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Australia wildfires

Ecologists at the University of Sydney are estimating that nearly half a billion animals have been killed in Australia’s unprecedented and catastrophic wildfires, which have sparked a continent-wide crisis and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in desperation.

News Corp Australia reported Wednesday that “there are real concerns entire species of plants and animals have been wiped out by bushfires following revelations almost 500 million animals have died since the crisis began.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/entire-species-are-being-wiped-out-ecologists-say-half-a-billion-animals-may-have-been-killed-by-australia-wildfires/|]

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The new normal, except it isn’t.

It’s going to get much worse.

And the longer we delay climate action, the worse it will get

It is horrendous... and I think that it unlikely the landscape will have enough time to recover and replenish before this happens all over again.