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<blockquote data-quote="That Bowie Girl" data-source="post: 198430" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>I have been watching this on the news Rove......how close are you? This is a horrible thing going on in Australia and I feel for your country.</p><p></p><p>Some of the things happening is just unheard of and horrific</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Nearly half a billion animals are believed to be dead in the <a href="https://www.insider.com/australia-bushfires-humanitarian-crisis-everything-happening-2020-1" target="_blank">bushfires still spreading across Australia</a>.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Ecologists at the University of Sydney <a href="https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/half-a-billion-animals-perish-in-bushfires/news-story/b316adb4f3af7b1c8464cf186ab9f52c" target="_blank">told News.com.au</a> that an estimated 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles have died in the bushfires, which have been burning across Australia since September. Eight thousand of the animals deaths are believed to be koalas, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-wildfires-animals-plants-glaciers-sydney-koalas-nsw-a9267316.html" target="_blank">The Independent reported</a>.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">As of Thursday morning, more than 130 fires were burning in New South Wales and Victoria. The fires have razed more than 9.9 million acres across five states. At least <a href="https://www.insider.com/australia-bushfires-humanitarian-crisis-everything-happening-2020-1" target="_blank">18 people have died</a> as a result of the bushfires. Some 1,400 homes have been destroyed.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Animals living in the regions include koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, possums, wombats, and <a href="https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/echidna" target="_blank">echidnas</a>.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Tracy Burgess, a volunteer at Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Services, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-bushfires-wildlife-idUSKBN1YY08S?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter" target="_blank">told Reuters</a> that rescuers aren't receiving as many animal patients as expected, which is cause for concern.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">"Our concern is that they don't come into care because they're not there anymore, basically," she said.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I have been watching this on CNN.Com and on my nightly news. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200102094458-10-australia-fires-1231-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191231090641-05b-australia-fires-1231-exlarge-169.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191119131842-03-australia-bushfires-1119-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/australia/australia-red-sky-fires-intl-hnk-scli/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/australia/australia-red-sky-fires-intl-hnk-scli/index.html</a></span></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/newsfeature/nearly-half-a-billion-animals-have-been-killed-in-australias-devastating-bushfires/ar-BBYyD4X" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/newsfeature/nearly-half-a-billion-animals-have-been-killed-in-australias-devastating-bushfires/ar-BBYyD4X</a></p><p></p><p>I did read that some celebrities including Pink, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have all given 500,000 to help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="That Bowie Girl, post: 198430, member: 5"] I have been watching this on the news Rove......how close are you? This is a horrible thing going on in Australia and I feel for your country. Some of the things happening is just unheard of and horrific [B][SIZE=7]Nearly half a billion animals are believed to be dead in the [URL='https://www.insider.com/australia-bushfires-humanitarian-crisis-everything-happening-2020-1']bushfires still spreading across Australia[/URL]. Ecologists at the University of Sydney [URL='https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/half-a-billion-animals-perish-in-bushfires/news-story/b316adb4f3af7b1c8464cf186ab9f52c']told News.com.au[/URL] that an estimated 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles have died in the bushfires, which have been burning across Australia since September. Eight thousand of the animals deaths are believed to be koalas, [URL='https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-wildfires-animals-plants-glaciers-sydney-koalas-nsw-a9267316.html']The Independent reported[/URL]. As of Thursday morning, more than 130 fires were burning in New South Wales and Victoria. The fires have razed more than 9.9 million acres across five states. At least [URL='https://www.insider.com/australia-bushfires-humanitarian-crisis-everything-happening-2020-1']18 people have died[/URL] as a result of the bushfires. Some 1,400 homes have been destroyed. Animals living in the regions include koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, possums, wombats, and [URL='https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/echidna']echidnas[/URL]. Tracy Burgess, a volunteer at Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Services, [URL='https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-bushfires-wildlife-idUSKBN1YY08S?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter']told Reuters[/URL] that rescuers aren't receiving as many animal patients as expected, which is cause for concern. "Our concern is that they don't come into care because they're not there anymore, basically," she said. [/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]I have been watching this on CNN.Com and on my nightly news. [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][IMG]https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200102094458-10-australia-fires-1231-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191231090641-05b-australia-fires-1231-exlarge-169.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191119131842-03-australia-bushfires-1119-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg[/IMG] [URL]https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/australia/australia-red-sky-fires-intl-hnk-scli/index.html[/URL][/SIZE] [URL]https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/newsfeature/nearly-half-a-billion-animals-have-been-killed-in-australias-devastating-bushfires/ar-BBYyD4X[/URL] I did read that some celebrities including Pink, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have all given 500,000 to help. [/QUOTE]
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