Australia's Wildlife Emergency | 101 East
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2020
- For more than six months, Australia has been on fire.
Millions of hectares have burned, dozens of lives have been lost, thousands of homes destroyed - and now a wildlife emergency is unfolding.
It is estimated that as many as one billion animals have been killed. With bushland scorched, more animals are continuing to succumb to the loss of food and habitat.
101 East travels to Kangaroo Island, a tourist destination off Australia's southern coast which has been ravaged by fires.
Known for its stunning natural beauty and abundance of wildlife, conservation groups are now in a race against time to try to rescue and care for the island's sick and injured animals.
Evan Quartermain, an ecologist, has been helping rescue as many of the surviving animals as he can, including the country's much-loved koalas.
About 80 percent of the koalas' habitat on Kangaroo Island was wiped out by the flames.
"There's corpses littering the ground. Nothing could have prepared me for it," says Quartermain. "It's extremely confronting, the amount of death."
Another ecologist, Pat Hodgens, is trying to help save one of the world's most vulnerable species, the Kangaroo Island dunnart, a small mouse-like marsupial.
There were thought to be less than 500 of them before the fires, but nearly all of their habitat has been destroyed.
"This could be the next species to go extinct," he says.
101 East meets the dedicated people fighting to save Australia's native animals.
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Anyone familiar with Australian animals must be devastated! So horrific. God bless all the ppl there helping recover the poor creatures.
THANKS for taking care of all the animals !!
Domagają się zauważenia, że cierpią...
Oh my God, This is devastating! My heart breaks for tall that has been lost.
I hate that government can tell us that preventative urns and fire blocks are not allowed so it travels from area to area. The Wildlife management should just build fire barriers and have periodic burns because the government does not work in our best interest. In Australia , Brazil or America.
Bless these people and the firefighters! I dont think i could be brave enough to fight a forest fire like that! True heroes!
I'm still crying....
Seeing all the animals in pain and knowing how many of them burnt alive is heartbreaking.
Man those koala's are so freakin cute
Thanks to all of you who help the animals ..
I did not know it was THIS serious
That is so sad. People are devastated about losing their home and personal property yet these animals lost everything and without help are going to die slowly of dehydration and malnutrition.
I've been crying throughout this video. It I heartbreaking.
So incredibly sad..God bless all your animal..
If only I could go to your country, I'm ready to help you rescue animals. I always prayed for you to survive. I know God will protect you and be well.
😭 Rest And Peace Koala R.I.P 🐨 Noooooooooooooo
Great Video. Please show us a future video of success in repairing the damage.
This so just so heartbreaking
Irresponsible pet owners dump unwanted domesticated cats out in the wilderness, at which point the cat population out there becomes feral. They are very mean and are *_not_* the same creatures as domestic type cats!
All of the animals look so epic traumatized
That was Preventative Burns.. my B key sticks.
Nooooooooooooo Baby Koalas 😭🐨🐨🐨🐢🐢🐢🐊🐊🐊🐍🐍🐍🐵🐵🐵🐈🐈🐈🦘🦘🦘🐒🐒🐒
Imagine if the creek fire merged with this one
Am I the only one who is bothered that this guy is *_poisoning_* the feral cats? And that is what they claim to be a more humane means to eradicate them? I don't even want to imagine what the less humane way would be.
Feral Cat = invasive species = dangerous to native species = whack the cats
@@flyingpaladin2712 Feral cat = animal species = is not invasive unlike human = have right to LIVE = eradicate humans
I am. It’s very sad. They’re just trying to live too. But if they’re going to kill the other animals that could go extinct, it’s probably for the best. But still. They don’t deserve that.
No. You're not the only one who is bothered. I am as well. While it is horrible the destruction from the bushfires to Australia's natural habitat and native animal population, by contrast I can't condone Pat's actions in his efforts to save the dunnart from further predation. Humane Society International is present and, yet inhumane acts are being enacted against innocent animals---feral cats, in this instance, to preserve another species which may or may not become extinct. Pat doesn't know this nor does anyone else. He doesn't know no matter his insistence that he is in possession of knowledge in support of this possible theory of the event's occurrence. Only God can realize and only God can decide the animals and Australia's fate. Who does he think he he is? Charles Darwin. Can the situation not be looked at from another perspective? One that is a little broader in scope than his own. The feral cats didn't start the fires on Kangaroo Island in the first place nor did they have any control over being homeless wandering strays attempting to survive in a natural environment ruined by fire. People were responsible for that. They didn't care about the cats just like Pat doesn't care. They abandoned them to the wilds. That's a scientist for you. He's an ecologist, isn't he? A scientist can be the hardest and the coldest. They can dice up animals in a lab without batting an eye or a thought for that animal all on the pretense that it is done in the name of science. The real reason it's done is because they're quite mad and extremely cruel. And I don't care who doesn't like what I'm saying--Pat--or anyone else in a similar occupation or with similar aspirations. I own cats. I like cats. And poisoning is cruel. And he's not thinking because something else could come in contact with the dead cat's body, or consume it and die as well. But that's a pinhead scientist for you.
totally bothered. why need to kill others to save others. it's their habitat and they aren't stupid. Invasive species? it's human right that invaded their habitat, invaded nature. killed camels, innocent animals. Human trying to do things logically, but ends up illogical.
Heartbreakinf
Why not cut a big hectares of trees for emergency sanctuary for wild animals in case of bush fire .
Площадь пожара офигенная,деревья все чёрные.люди до сих пор собирают,подранков по всем закоулкам.и у берега,вероятно водой смыло коалла с дерева.
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Instead of countries fighting and preparing to fight wars, and armies training and being at readiness, wouldn't it be great if armies could partake in a war against wildfires, and repairing the damage caused by wildfires, and focusing on the care of wildlife and plant life instead of humans. Humans would be the big benefactor in the end anyway.
If we spent one tenth the money protecting life as we do preparing to take it the world would be a eden all over again. RIP to all the little ones who i hope now are in such a better place.
back be for human's fire could have happen ever 1000 years, it give's god,nature, time to breed up lot's of it's wildlife, bless the animal's....
Whats the cause of fire in Forrest?
Humans with oversized brains !!
It was natural every year and important, but this year, the temperature was too hot and fire went out of control.
Majority were dry lightning strikes
australia killed camels. nature got furious. then, the fire started. another episode of human being brainless.
@@48hd38 halfwit
Indonesia was affected by fire fumes:(( unlucky neighbours
Скорей всего нужно российским врачам востановить красный-крест.03.международная организация.
There are only two ways in which a fire can be caused : arson (human beings) or lightning. It´s known that certain people like to set fires, because they are enjoying destruction, suffering and killing (experts on first signs of psychopathy: arson and torturing of animals).
Where's sonic?
Наши врачи с мчс с россии кинулись на помощь южным австралийцам на зов; sos.это международный сигнал бедствия.
Just love the prime minister ✌️
Me too, to DEATH!
I hate him
fire, flood, thunderstorm, God's whip
dont kill camels and fire will stop
Astral P / OBE A.S.P dogs
And then the camels will destroy the environment that Australian wildlife depend on and go extinct. Clever.
@@zvoyeur8488 they stop killing camels and fire stop
@@aitkhebbach-k5 put down the ice pipe and get ya self some help,, muppet.
I praise and thank God, The Creator of us all. I live in the USA and not in Australia. I heard that now there are little or no severe fires in Australia. I thanked God Alone when I heard the news. I hope others thanked God and vowed to God to try to be better people. I love God.
God, created this FIRE THAT TOOK 1 BILLION ANIMAL LIVES,
DO YOU STILL THINK HE IS IS ON OUR SIDE?
Jocelyn, the fires were started by lightening
@@hilarydrinkwater5392 Lol no. Bushfires are common every year and is important to maintain the ecosystem.(limited fires)
But this year, the temperature was too hot, so the fires went out of control.
All this fire forests are mainly done by richest person because they might have found valuable things there...or they want field..
It was caused by lightening. Not arson
Lol wtf didn't the fires stop the other day? Wtf haaha
Nobody cares is the biggest fire
I thought Australians kill everything? Mice, Emu, Rabbits, Dingos, Camels, Rats, Toads, Snakes, and the list goes on.
So do Americans, British oh and everyone else in the world kill everything so what's your point?
Cutting down Trees 🌲🌲🌲🌲around are world from forests 🌳 to woodlands 🌳are releasing Toxins that the trees 🌲 have collect back into the Atmosphere and logging is cutting far quicker than planting around the world and adult trees 🌲 that take 45 years to grow store more toxins and carbon than just new planted trees does .
If the logging continues to carry on then the weathers around are world will become a lot hotter and very aggressive storms will become life threatening for humans just because humans can’t stop eating massive amounts meat 🥩 just because jobs and money are more important than life itself .
PLEASE SAY NO TO LOGGING and help protect the trees and the wildlife habitats that are so important to the world we live .
god punished aus
They punished themselves.