I hope in Australia the people have been able to escape. In some of the California fires, many people died while trying to flee. I saw footage filmed from inside of a car of one very narrow harrowing escape. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.Humans have the mental and physical ability to escape. It's the wildlife, the poor animals.
Absolutely breaks my heart. 😢😢😢😢
I similarly can’t believe all the fires on the maps I’m seeing for Australia. I share your heartbreak. The poor koalas in particular have made the news for really horrific reasons. In the USA, as far as I know, we don’t really have an animal quite like that, that is so arboreal that all of its instincts would keep it in trees where death is certain. Anything I could think of like raccoons and squirrels have at least a small chance of fleeing. But we still lost plenty of them, too.