SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, showed a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ...

Koalas look like harmless stuffed animals, but the transcript paints them as the “king of dumb” in the animal kingdom. They eat toxic, low-calorie eucalyptus, move slowly, and may not even understand ...

The deaths of thousands of Koalas – as well as photos and videos posted on social media in recent weeks, can’t begin to tell the story of the devastation wrought on Australia’s indigenous fauna, ...

Fire is a natural part of the Australian landscape. But the more frequent fires we've seen recently—particularly the high severity bushfires that consume or scorch the canopies of whole forests—are a ...

The horrific Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20 burned more than 8 million hectares of vegetation across southeastern Australia. An estimated 3 billion animals were caught in the fire zone. Yet despite ...

Evidence from camera footage and researchers confirms 56 species relied on specific underground infrastructures for post-fire survival, namely wombat burrows. Entrances measuring only 19 cm high ...

As the Grampians/Gariwerd National Park burned in Victoria's recent summer bushfires, Mark Treweek was nearby, keeping a watchful eye over his prized giraffes and rhinoceroses. As director of the ...

When volunteer Sarah Price found a baby kangaroo frightened but miraculously alive in the pouch of its dying mother surrounded by the embers of Australia’s bushfires, it seemed fitting to name him ...

The impact of the Australian bushfires on our wildlife appears to be even greater than previously thought. It's now estimated ...

Native species of birds and mammals endemic to WA may be wiped out from raging bushfires in the region. THEY ARE THE FORGOTTEN victims of the bushfires in southwest Western Australia – species of ...