A season in hell: bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction
- Written by John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University
Birds are disoriented by smoke and often cannot escape a fire.James Ross/AAP
Images of desperate, singed koalas in blackened landscapes have come to symbolise the damage to nature this bushfire season. Such imagery has catalysed global concern, but the toll on biodiversity is much more pervasive.
Until the fires stop burning, we won’t know...
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