Australia Fires 2019 Koalas

In this image made from video taken on December 22 2019 and provided by Oakbank Balhannah CFS a koala drinks water from a bottle given by a firefighter in Cudlee Creek South Australia.

Australia fires 2019 koalas. As koalas suffer in the Australian bushfires misinformation has spread about their demise. Unprecedented bushfires raging in eastern Australia have killed at least four people and devastated wildlife in the region killing hundreds of koalas and burning through their colonies so badly. A new report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia found the 2019-20 bushfires resulted in the loss of about 71 of koala populations in fire affected areas at six locations on the north coast of New South Wales.

A new WWF-Australia report released on Sunday reveals the losses at six fire. The first group of koalas injured in Australias 2019 bushfires has been re-released into the wild in New South Wales. The fire is believed to have been sparked by a lightning strike on October 26 2019 at some 400 kilometers north of Sydney.

WWF-Australia CEO Dermot OGorman said koalas in NSW and Queensland were in rapid decline before the fires. As catastrophic fires have burned more than two million acres in Australia dozens of koalas have been rescued from smoldering trees and ashen ground. The fires impacted more than 41000 koalas on South Australias Kangaroo Island more than 11000 in Victoria nearly 8000 in NSW and nearly 900 in Queensland.

Hundreds of koalas are feared to have burned to death in an out-of-control bushfire on Australias east coast wildlife authorities said on Wednesday. A koala is pictured in Queensland. No koalas arent functionally extinctyet.

A dehydrated and injured koala receives treatment at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie New South Wales Australia on Nov. In 2019 a lot of bushfires have reportedly caused many casualties to koalas. Hundreds of Koalas Feared Dead in Australia Wildfires.

By Amy Woodyatt CNN. Heres what we know. CNN More than 350 koalas are feared to have been killed by bushfires in.