Billions of animals?
Is that right?
Whatever the number, what a shame.
How much brush reduction is being done in Australia, or do their government officials and their natural resource managers have the “California” mindset when it comes to dealing with these seasonal fires over there?
Tugging the heart strings to promote the climate cult.
Funny how the press never post pics of partial birth abortions...
Sad; very sad.
Like CA, brush reduction by Dept Interior/Forestry was eliminated to funnel monies into social programs, and these fires rage, uncontrollable, with huge losses of humans’ and animals’ lives, not to mention homes and habitats.
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
and that’s it hanging on the shed.
All together now!
Asking for a friend.
I wonder if the heroes of the left are setting these fires....
https://www.foxnews.com/world/isis-terror-network-wildfire-us-europe-threat-media-outlet
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/02/greens-made-australia-bush-fires-worse/
What a crime. Look at the graph.
Poor thing. I saw that photo earlier today and it broke my heart. I also wonder how many koalas have been lost in these fires. Last year we visited a wildlife sanctuary outside of Kingman, AZ. They had some wolves from California that had survived a Ca. wildfire by burrowing deep underground.
A study of how the Martu shaped their land presents an example where humans seem to benefit an environment perceived as wilderness.
In Australia in recent decades, the bilby, the bettong, or rat kangaroo, the brush-tailed possum and other medium-sized mammals all disappeared from the Western Desert. It was a mystery: Typically bigger animals vanish first — often only after people show up.
But ask the people who lived in this desert for 48,000 years what happened and many will tell you: They left.
“A lot of Martu people say that if there’s no people out in the country, then all the animals become absent. When the people and animals are absent, then the country becomes sick or unwell. There’s no balance there,” said Curtis Taylor, a filmmaker and young leader of the Martu community.
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“It was in that time that you get this wave of extinctions,” said Doug Bird, an author of the study and an anthropologist at Penn State University who has been working with the Martu to better understand how they care for their land. It seemed paradoxical to him: How could taking hunters out of the desert harm it?
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Burning spinifex to hunt for goanna, a sand monitor lizard, in Australia. These small hunting fires have helped sustain wild species, adding to the diversity of vegetation and contributing to food webs.
Aboriginal Hunters’ Fires Help Restore an Australian Desert (Feb. 8, 2019)
I am sorry that the animals are dying in such a horrific way. That being said, I will be in Australia in 3 weeks and plan to enjoy a meal of kangaroo loin.
Firstly,words fail to describe my despair for the animals in this fire. My second point as a tangent is that this horror and the Iran thing is warping the brains of the very impressionable ,purposely by the media,to think we are going to have WWIII and the Earth is on fire.
I do have sympathy for the animals, however, all around the world people are really beginning to have more concern for animals than for people. It is REALLY bad in the United States and there is no excuse. I guess only judgement will sort things out, either in this life, or the one after.