Australia Fires 2019 Animals
Prior to the 2020 fire season The World Wide Fund for Nature WWF predicted Australias koala population to decline by 21 per cent every decade leading to possible koala extinction in New South Wales NSW and Queensland by 2050.
Australia fires 2019 animals. On 20 January 2020 the Australian Governments Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment released an initial list of threatened and migratory species that have more than 10 of their known or predicted distribution in areas affected by bushfires in southern and eastern Australia from 1 August 2019 and 13 January 2020. First published on Mon 27 Jul 2020 2200 EDT. Its been a year well never forget.
A prolonged drought that began in 2017 made this years bushfire season more devastating than ever. Bushfires in Australia impacted one billion animals from September 2019 to January 2020 according to estimates by ecologist Professor Christopher Dickman from the University of Sydney. Rapid analysis of impacts of 2019-20 fires on animal speciesp2 1.
Kangaroo Island off the south of Australia was particularly badly hit with around half of the island affected by the flames. Mega blazes swept across every Australian state last summer scorching bush and killing at least 33 people. Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australias unprecedented 2019-20 wildfires in one of the worst wildlife disasters in.
The fires have covered an unusually large spatial extent and in many areas they have burnt. A shocking new report compiled by 10 scientists and commissioned by WWF-Australia has found that the countrys devastating bushfires in 2019 and 2020 killed or displaced nearly three billion. The fires killed or displaced nearly 3 billion animals.
Now the University of Sydney estimates that 480 million animals including reptiles birds mammals have lost their lives to the wildfires since Sep 2019. Its almost three times an earlier estimate released in January. Nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced by Australias devastating bushfire season of 2019.
Its thought at least a billion animals died in the fires. The breakdown is 143 million mammals 246 billion reptiles 180 million birds and 51 million frogs. Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australias devastating wildfires in 2019 and 2020 according to a new report.