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Dispatches International
AUSTRALIA
Wildlife Toll
New report estimates Australian wildfires in 2019 and 2020
killed or displaced 3 billion animals. By Angelo Verzoni
REPORT RELEASED in
July by the World Wildlife
Fund (WWF) estimates
that nearly 3 billion
animals were killed or displaced during Australia's
devastating 2019-2020 wildfire season.
Earlier estimates had placed the wildlife
toll from the fires closer to 1 billion.
Researchers involved with the study
expressed shock over the new figure.
A
"It's hard to think of another event
anywhere in the world in living memory
that has killed or displaced that many
animals," WWF-Australia CEO Dermot
O'Gorman said in the report foreword.
"This ranks as one of the worst wildlife
disasters in modern history."
"When you think about nearly 3 billion
native animals being in the path of the
fires, it is absolutely huge," said Professor Chris Dickman of the University
of Sydney. "It's a difficult number to
comprehend."
Reptiles bore the brunt of the blazes,
according to the report, with nearly 2.5
billion of them affected. "This is because
densities of reptiles can be much higher
than what is typical for other [animals],"
the report says. Skinks-a type of lizard
that serves as an integral component of
the diets of predators such as snakes and
feral cats-accounted for 16 of the 20
most-affected reptile species.
While estimating 143 million mammalian species were affected by the fires,
the report makes no specific mention of
koalas, an endangered mammal whose
numbers were expected to sink by the
thousands as a result of the fires. In
January, as powerful photos of burned
GETT Y IMAGES
BEARING THE BRUNT
An injured koala receives treatment at a special koala hospital in Australia following a
wildfire. New estimates report that nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced by
recent wildfires in the country, a dramatic increase over previous estimates.
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