The wildfires claimed lives, burned millions of acres and destroyed more than a thousand homes.
In December, Cheyne Flanagan, the clinical director of the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, told Parliament members that legislation failed to protect the koala population. The hospital in New South Wales received and treated dozens of koalas that were harmed by the fire, including one named Ellenborough Lewis.
Lewis gained international attention after a woman ventured out into the trees and pulled the koala from an inferno. Unfortunately, the koala hospital had to put him down because he wasn't recovering. Kangaroos, another Australian icon, are also facing the threat of flames and were filmed fleeing to safety. The potoroo, a hare-size wallaby; the silver-headed antechinus, a shrew-size marsupial; and the regent honeyeater bird—all species with only a few hundred animals left in the population—could be completely eradicated from the country.
A dehydrated and injured koala receives treatment at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital on November 2 after its rescue from a bushfire that has ravaged an area of more than 4,900 acres.A koala named Sharni from Crowdy Bay National Park is treated at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital on November 29 in Port Macquarie, Australia.Fires have burned more than 4 million hectares, equivalent to 9,884,215 acres or about 7,488,042 football fields.
"These huge and disastrous fires continue to burn ferociously and with abandon, and reports have come out that the fires have actually intensified in the last 12 hours," NASA said.Although there was a brief reprieve in the severe weather conditions fueling the flames, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology toldthe heat was expected to return on Friday.
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