Australia Fires Animals Pictures. The smoke is even turning the sky in new zealand orange — about 1,200 miles away. When you’re done with this post, have a read through bored panda’s other articles about the australian fires.
Here, a wallaby licks its burnt paws, after having escaped a bushfire on the liberation trail in new south wales, seen on nov. Devastating bushfires are roaring across australia, turning the landscape into cinders. This week, the estimated number of animals feared dead in australia's devastating bushfires soared to more than 1 billion.
South australia, after being rescued from fires in a garden.
More than a billion animals are feared to have died so far, and thousands have also been receiving hospital treatment. As the country enters its third year of an unprecedented drought, blazes have burned an estimated 25 million acres — 46% more than the total that burned in the brazilian amazon last year. Some of the animals found here are very unique, and are not found anywhere else in the world. With habitats ranging from desert to coral reef, via tropical and temperate rainforests, rivers and grasslands, australia is home to many of the world’s most recognisable animals, including kangaroos, koalas, emus.
