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Vegetables dropped from sky in Australia for fire-affected wallabies

Sweet potato and carrots were dropped for the animals in New South Wales.

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2020-01-13 09:22
in Environment, World News
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Vegetables have been dropped over New South Wales in an effort to distribute food to fire-affected wildlife in Australia.

Thousands of kilograms of food including sweet potato and carrots were flung from the air for wallaby colonies, according to Minister for Energy and Environment for New South Wales Matt Kean.

“#NPWS staff today dropped thousands of kgs of food (Mostly sweet potato and carrots) for our Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby colonies across NSW,” Mr Kean tweeted.

He also shared an image of one of the fire-affected critters munching on a carrot, with the caption “One happy customer”.

Operation Rock Wallaby ?- #NPWS staff today dropped thousands of kgs of food (Mostly sweet potato and carrots) for our Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby colonies across NSW ?? #bushfires pic.twitter.com/ZBN0MSLZei

— Matt Kean MP (@Matt_KeanMP) January 11, 2020

One happy customer ?????#operationrockwallaby #AustralianFires pic.twitter.com/wtzMgeaX6D

— Matt Kean MP (@Matt_KeanMP) January 11, 2020

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Earlier in January, a professor from the University of Sydney estimated 480 million animals had already been killed since the bushfires began in New South Wales alone.

Crews battling the country’s fires said they have been able to turn from defence to offence for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather.

The tragic Australian wildfires that are now billowing smoke as far afield as South America have led to a death toll of at least 27 in a crisis that has destroyed over 2,000 homes.

The crisis has brought accusations that Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government needs to take more action to counter climate change, which experts say has worsened the blazes.

Thousands of protesters rallied late on Friday in Sydney and Melbourne, calling for Mr Morrison to be sacked and for Australia to take tougher action on global warming.

The prime minister said on Sunday that his government was building resilience to the fire danger posed by climate change.

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A firefighters work at building a containment line at a wildfire near Bodalla (Rick Rycroft/AP)

He said the government was developing a national disaster risk reduction framework within the Department of Home Affairs that will deal with wildfires, cyclones, floods and drought.

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