A new estimate by ecologist Chris Dickman suggests roughly a billion wild mammals, birds, and reptiles have been killed by the fires. That includes animals that have perished in the flames, and those that will die due to starvation in the coming weeks & months.
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Perhaps more worrying than this staggering death toll is the fact that the entire habitat range of literally dozens of threatened species has been obliterated. Multiple ecologists told me extinctions will likely occur from this event.
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The entire western third of Kangaroo Island, an utterly unique biodiversity hotspot, has been wiped off the map. That includes the entire habitat range of several animals found nowhere else, inc the Kangaroo Island dunnart & the glossy black cockatoo.
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Here's how Katja Hogendoorn, an ecologist who works on Kangaroo Island, described it to me: “Everything is burned. It’s turned into ash. It’s just incomprehensible.”
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If you want more detail on the literal dozens of species that may face extinction due to these fires, several of the ecologists I quoted published a piece in the Conversation on it todayhttps://theconversation.com/a-season-in-hell-bushfires-push-at-least-20-threatened-species-closer-to-extinction-129533 …
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No good telling Morrison! His Lights aren’t even ON! Fact is, his ‘Darkness’ has befallen the Entire Country!https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/07/darkness-coming-if-scott-morrison-not-re-elected-pentecostal-leader-claims …
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It's making my heart so sad. These pictures are too much. God is not merciful he is merciless. I have lost the little faith I had left after this. The devil is in charge now no doubt.
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Can you share some of the information they gave you? Just so we can be informed.
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Hvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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Hvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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