Until the fires stop burning, we won’t know the full extent of the environmental damage. But these fires have significantly increased the extinction risk for many threatened species.
It has been estimated that up to a billion animals have perished in the fires, and scientists estimate that most of the range and population of between 20 and 100 threatened species will have been burnt. Such endangered species include the long-footed potoroo, Kangaroo Island’s glossy black-cockatoo and the Spring midge orchid.
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