This is just a short post to say that the numbers of koala rescues I am seeing seem a little bit small compared to the stats saying hundreds of millions of animals have died in the fires. The Crocodile Hunter people I think rescued over 90,000 or more, which is amazing, and maybe I have just not seen the news enough for Australia. But on facebook, I see one koala get temporary water at a time, with headlines saying 480 million or even a billion animals have died. Thankfully, it started raining, but there may need to be prevention measures for the future, supported by the rest of the world.
An irrigation system could be worth investing in to prevent more problems like the fires that hurt everyone for two years. Also, I want to point out that a certain American brand of climate activism which is very political and often just scapegoats people who haven't come around to that kind of environmentalism yet is not the exact match for what is probably needed in an emergency like what happened with the wildlife in Australia. There is some kind of heroic mass rescue effort needed that is different than just lobbying polluters and shaming ignorant people. Fire fighting is part of it, but the scale of animal rescue needed was beyond what has been established yet, and it is probably not too late for people to take action to make those rescues possible in the future.
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