found this video just now on YouTube

Yeah but as I said after my link, this Koala, Lewis Sadly died. Its all very sad :bawling:

Very powerful video

I really wish I could do more than donate to help!!

I have a friend in Perth and I spoke to him on Christmas Day. They've not had such awful fires as they have in the east, but he said it was the hottest Christmas for years, almost up to 40 degrees. It's all a bit of a nightmare.

To badly burnt.
At least they tried

Hearing him scream and cry on that video is awful

Oh did he ? :bawling: sorry Jake didn't see that,what an awful shame

I think sometimes the sounds of them suffereing is worse than anything.:bawling:

sometimes i just can't look at that :sad:

Has the UK sent aid?

Yes Today and Yesterday.

about time :idc:

yes true, a uncle of my dad lives in Townsville, Queensland, and he said on Christmas and towards new years eve/day it was up from 42 to 43 degrees

React a lot quicker.

While it's great he's now offered help I sincerely hope if the UK is ever facing such a disaster other countries are a lot quicker in offering us help.

He was in touch with them :shrug:

An astonishing photo capturing the catastrophic bushfires ravaging northern New South Wales has left the world stunned.
Zach Firth, who was on a plane flying from the Gold Coast to Melbourne on Friday night, took the photo just north of Coffs Harbour.

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/...e3bc?width=650

https://www.news.com.au/technology/e...017a4610ae5fec

Several maps purporting to show the scale of the fires also vastly exaggerate their spread, including an artistic rendition of heat map that the artist never intended to be used as a true representation of the bushfires.


"ok so the latest Bad Bushfires Map doing the rounds makes the mistake of re-rendering grids from the FIRMS map into a heat map, instead of using points and scaling correctly"

https://www.theguardian.com/australi...n-false-claims

Not slim trolling the forum with misinformation and fake maps ?

:omgno:

...Kangaroo Island then and now...

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/w...7506e__700.jpg

Oh no :bawling:


It is making me really angry. Its estimated it could be near enough a billion animals that have died in these fires.

Meanwhile the main stories on the news seems to be threats of countries aiming to kill people from other countries because you know humans are the most stupid and most evil species on the planet.

Because of our selfishlessness its resulted in things like climate change happening and now all these animals have suffered and died because of it and the main topic of interest? WAR! disgraceful

It's been awful. I hate to see animals suffering. I really hope it rains soon. It has to. :sad:

Exactly. I thought at the very least as a species we could put our differences aside and come together to stop the destruction of the ****ing planet but no, we can’t even do that.

It rained the other day but didnt seem to help much. It is set to go even hotter tomorrow and winds and dry lightning could cause more fires and the fires currently to combine causing mega blazes

Bush fires are a natural part of Australias Ecosystem. I believe the problem with the current ones is that they have been controlled so much over the past recent years that the foliage has become so dense in places that it was a tinder box ready to explode. Rather than a direct consequence of climate change.

for tomorrow, a prediction on how the fire will spread

this graphic i found via help from one of my australian friends on escforum