One Billion dead!

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They now calculate 1.25 Billion animals dead but they also say they will not know for another 10 years what the total toll of this disaster is.

On the good news side, Versace is no longer using kangaroo skin and, on this same link, there is a petition under it for Adidas to stop, also.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... o-leather/

And, giving credit where credit is due, zoos in Australia and elsewhere are helping the wild animals affected by the fires, too.

https://keyt.com/lifestyle/animals/2020 ... -can-help/

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Mass citizen science project to photograph and record how the habitats are responding after the devastating fire.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/bi ... ar-BBZuh0J

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A VERY nicely written essay about what is happening in Australia and the world due to climate change.

https://journaltimes.com/lifestyles/fai ... ab7f4.html

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Australia is really doing VERY badly for their animals. First link is biggest wheat farmer found to have cleared land illegally - second link is about finding starving and injured koalas in a private property (the fence prevented them from leaving so they could not find food and some were bulldozed over). 31 had to be euthanized so far...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... d-clearing

https://www.bing.com/search?q=australia ... a3dbef4655

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Scientist who is leading expert in wildlife find that Australian animals are under EXTREME stress!

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-australia ... ought.html

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Farmer from Kangaroo Island: "Everything is dead."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/worl ... -fire.html

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The ten animals that suffered the most in the fires (three of them are birds!):

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10- ... fires.html

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It's finally raining!!!

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/rain ... -10022020/


113 species identified as requiring URGENT action!

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 53zsu.html

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Kaytee donated $25,000 to help with the fires in Australia

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kaytee-a ... 00172.html

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Bear, the dog, is helping koalas but the group that handles him needs our help. Read on.

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/anima ... 5-40378997