Planes and helicopters are being used to feed the thousands of hungry wildlife stranded amid the Australian wildfire crisis. The New South Wales government has started doing food-drops, delivery thousands of pounds of carrots and sweet potato from above to feed the state’s colonies of brush-trailed rock wallabies. The wallabies typically survive the fire itself, but are then left stranded with limited natural food as the fire takes out the vegetation around their rocky habitat.
… The World Wildlife Fund has estimated about 1.25 billion animals have died either directly or indirectly from the wildfires across Australia.