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I finished this piece early on in Australia’s 2019/2020 bush fire season, before the entire continent was engulfed in flames. Since then, officials estimate that around a billion animals have died in the fires.
Koalas are threatened by climate change, declining fire management, land development, drought, and poor food quality- higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are diminishing the nutritional value of the eucalyptus leaves koalas eat.