Spread Vegetables For Wild Animal Victims Of Australia's Wildfires

Illustration (Photo: Twitter @Matt_KeanMP)

JAKARTA - Thousands of pounds of sweet potatoes and carrots were thrown into the forests of Australia by being thrown from the air. This is done so that animals commonly found in Australian forests, such as wallabies, can get sufficient food stocks. These animals cannot meet their food needs considering that forest fires in Australia are also destroying their food sources.

The effort to distribute food from these helicopters is the largest of its kind for wallabies. Walabi is a critically endangered Australian endemic animal.

"Wallabies are usually able to save themselves from fire, but are then left stranded with limited food because the fire destroys the vegetables around their habitat. Wallabies are already under stress due to the ongoing drought, making survival a challenge for wallabies if they live without. aid, "said New South Wales Environment Minister Matt Kean, quoted from the National Post, Friday 17 January.

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

Officials distributing the food by helicopter said they saw many dead animals. The crisis prompted Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to change his administration's approach to climate policy as the fires had killed 27 people and burned millions of hectares of forest.

Aid for wallabies is the latest attempt by Australian officials and conservation teams to save one of its lives, which is sadly destroyed by wildfires.

It is estimated that 1 billion animals have died in the fires. Scientists have warned that species of mammals, birds, insects, fungi and plants may also have been wiped out by the roasts.

Walabi was declared an endangered species in 2014 by Australia and their population has been decreasing ever since. Even animals that survive fires are at risk of extinction. Because they lose their habitat and source of food, which causes a crisis and eventually dies.

But sadly, the wallabies rescue project was accompanied by a recent decision to destroy 10,000 camels. Camels were brought to Australia in the 1800s as a means of transportation across the desert. But now there are more than a million, most of whom roam in the wild.

The country's drought has prompted some camels to enter villages in search of food and water, posing a threat to human safety and their drinking water reserves.

In a weekend interview with the Australian Broadcasting Company, PM Morrison said the fires in Australia were a result of climate change. Long summers have sparked fires, they are difficult to extinguish because summer also triggers dry spells and makes water supply scarce.

"Climate change, it concerns government policy. Clearly the impact of longer, hotter, drier summers. That is the message we received. That's the government's job, okay. There's no need to argue about that, "said Morrison.