THEAuthorities in New South Wales, Australia, have taken advantage of the temperature-warring respite to distribute vegetables in some areas to feed animals that have been able to escape from their habitats.
Falling temperatures have allowed firefighters to work this weekend to try to mitigate the more than 100 fires still burning in Australia in a wave of fires that have already destroyed an area the size of South Korea or Portugal.
Since they started in September In the past, the fires devastated an area of more than 8 million hectares and it is estimated that up to 1 billion wild animals have died.
In this direction, the government of New South Wales decided to distribute vegetables in the valleys of Capertree and Wolgan, using helicopters, in an operation called ‘Rock Wallaby’. “The authorities of New South Wales today dropped thousands of pounds of food (mostly sweet potatoes and carrots) to our rock colonies.wallabys“said a local minister through Twitter.
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
The Wallaby or wallabee are a kind of family marsupial ‘Macropodidae‘, native to Australia and New Guinea. They are similar to kangaroos, but smaller.
2019 was the warmest and driest year in Australia since data are available. The day of 18 December the last one was the hottest ever, with a national average maximum temperatures of 41.9 degrees.
The wave of fires in the country has already killed 27 people.
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