The Australian government is currently using helicopters and planes to help feed hungry animals displaced by the fires in the country.
The NSW government mobilized aircraft to throw more than 4,000 pounds (about 1,814 kilograms) of food to swarms of broom-tailed rock kangaroos, an animal considered one of Australia's symbols that have trapped them due to habitat damage from fires.
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It is reported that the food thrown is mainly carrots and sweet potatoes.
Before the fires began in September, broom-tailed rock kangaroos in southeastern Australia were on the verge of extinction. Australian government officials say their survival issues could be further complicated by the current crisis. Australian fires are estimated to have killed 1 billion animals and scorched more than 8.4 million hectares of land, about twice the size of maryland in the United States.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Keane said on Sunday local time: "Preliminary fire assessments show that recent forest fires have destroyed several important broom-tailed rock kangaroo habitats and their survival is challenged. ”
This feeding measure is the most extensive relief measure, Keane said, and the program is designed to help sustain the animal communities and allow them to recover.
"Providing complementary food is one of the key strategies we are deploying to promote the survival and recovery of endangered species, such as broom-tailed rock kangaroos," Keane said. These wallabies are usually able to survive fires, but when fires burn off the vegetation around their habitat, they are plagued by starvation. ”
