are fires threatening australia zoo?
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While the Australia Zoo, which is owned and operated by the Irwin family, and their conservation properties are not threatened by fires, the zoo's Wildlife Hospital is seeing a sharp rise in numbers of injured animals.
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Toowoomba Region Mayor Paul Antonio said the fire threat was at emergency level. ... “Conditions are now very dangerous and firefighters may soon be unable to prevent the fire advancing,” authorities warn. The state's bushfire crisis is now in its second week, with 80 fires burning across the state.
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Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia's devastating wildfires in 2019 and 2020, according to a new report, with experts calling it "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history".
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Some travelers have expressed concerns about visiting Australia at the moment, as fires have burned more than 17 million acres. Yet Queensland, the northeastern state that serves as a gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, has not been impacted by the fires, according to Tourism Australia.
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Bushfires in Australia are a widespread and regular occurrence that have contributed significantly to shaping the nature of the continent over millions of years. ... In January 2020, it was estimated that over 1.25 billion animals have died in the 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season.
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Some animals, like koalas and kangaroos, are primarily killed directly by the fires -- for instance, by being incinerated in flames or choking on smoke. Nearly a third of all koalas in NSW have died and about a third of their habitat has been destroyed, federal environment minister Sussan Ley said in December.
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Unseasonably high temperatures and drought over the last three months have contributed to the conditions that have allowed the fires to proliferate. ... And in Australia we've just experienced record high temperatures," Mark Howden, director of the Climate Change Institute at Australian National University, told Reuters.
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Months of devastating fires in Australia left at least 28 people dead, about 3,000 homes destroyed and up to a billion animals affected. ... Now, all bushfires in the state have been extinguished.
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The fire has been raging across some 12,500 hectares (30,888 acres) of the Adelaide Hills since last Friday. More than 100 people have needed hospital treatment, while at least 38 homes and 125 outhouses have been destroyed and livestock has died.
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This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia's history, with at least 15 people killed, hundreds of homes destroyed and millions of acres burned. And summer is far from over. ... The hot, dry conditions that have fueled the fires are nothing new in Australia.
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Australia's environment minister says up to 30% of koalas killed in NSW mid-north coast fires. Australia's environment minister has said up to 30% of koalas on the New South Wales mid-north coast may have been killed in the country's ongoing bushfire crisis. ... Some 3.4m hectares have been burnt in NSW alone.
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Record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought have fuelled a series of massive bushfires across Australia. ... At least 33 people have been killed - including four firefighters - and more than 11 million hectares (110,000 sq km or 27.2 million acres) of bush, forest and parks across Australia has burned.
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"Given the scale of loss to koala populations across New South Wales as a result of the 2019- 2020 bushfires and without urgent government intervention to protect habitat and address all other threats, the koala will become extinct in New South Wales before 2050," the report says.
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Mogo Wildlife Park has been closed for two months following the NSW south coast bushfires. About 200 animals housed in the zoo were protected by staff from blazes. Tourists have been urged to visit the zoo and other bushfire-impacted businesses in the region.
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Two Australian states have declared a state of emergency as bushfires bring a "catastrophic" threat to heavily populated areas of the nation's east. At least three people are dead and thousands have been displaced by three days of dangerous weather conditions in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland.
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As of Saturday evening, there are no fires burning in the ACT. ... But authorities are concerned that new fires started by dry lightning strikes or arson could quickly become difficult to control. Follow our live blog for updates on bushfires and evacuations.
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Australian authorities have warned that massive bushfires raging in two states will continue to pose a threat, despite "catastrophic" conditions easing. About 150 fires are still burning in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, feeding off tinder-dry conditions. ... At one point, fires broke out in suburbs of Sydney.