Conservationists and wildlife experts are anxious that raging bushfires sweeping through Australia have resulted in “catastrophic losses”, amid fears an entire species may have been wiped out.
A state of emergency was declared in New South Wales and parts of Victoria, with officials warning of an “unprecedented fire danger.” Getty Images
Now according to this report by @readfearn, the long-footed potoroo in East Gippsland, the Kangaroo Island Dunnart, the Hastings River mouse and the rufous scrub-bird are all also at serious risk in wake of the #AustraliaFires https://t.co/yRtcQybHio #AustraliaBurns
— John Pickrell(@john_pickrell) January 5, 2020
Kangaroo Island, located off the country’s southern coast and home to the dunnarts, is known as Australia’s answer to the Galapagos Islands – but what remains has been described as a “scorched wasteland”. See The Independent for the full story:
