Posts tagged Bushfires

Bushfires Hasten the Death Knell of many Australian Native Animals and Plants

By Neena Bhandari

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan 14 2020 (IPS) – The chatter of cockatoos and lorikeets has given way to an eerie silence in smoke enveloped charred landscapes across south-eastern Australia. The unrelenting bushfires have driven many native animal and plant species to the brink of extinction and made several fauna more vulnerable with vast swathes of their habitat incinerated.

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Australia’s Bushfires Bring Mounting Pressure to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

By Neena Bhandari

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan 8 2020 (IPS) – As nature’s fury wreaked havoc across Australia, reducing to ashes all that came in its way – people, flora, fauna, picturesque historic towns and villages once popular with local and overseas tourists – it was unlike anything the country had witnessed before. The staggering scale and intensity of the devastation could best be summed up as apocalyptic.

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