farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Probably not much use to southern Australia I'd guess.The patterns are FINALLY changing and indicating wetter times ahead across the Northern half of Australia!"
Probably not much use to southern Australia I'd guess.The patterns are FINALLY changing and indicating wetter times ahead across the Northern half of Australia!"
Counting dead plants must be tricky.
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This image of six koalas huddled in a laundry after they were rescued by volunteer firefighter.
Poor little things.
They were some of the lucky ones.
They're definitely in trouble as a species - the next round of fires are in danger of rendering them functionally extinct
not quite: No, koalas aren't 'functionally extinct'—yetThey were declared functionally extinct last May, so I think they're definitely there now.
AUSTRALIA'S BUSHFIRE CRISIS AT A GLANCE
NEW SOUTH WALES:
- 15 lives lost, four in the past 48 hours
- One person remains missing
- More than 110 bushfires burning
- 3.6 million hectares burned, greater than the size of Belgium
- 1,298 homes confirmed destroyed
VICTORIA:
- One person dead, 17 more missing
- About 50 bushfires burning
- More than 766,000 hectares burned
- 68 structures confirmed destroyed but this number is expected to rise significantly
TASMANIA:
- More than 30 bushfires burning, seven of significance
- 8000 hectares burned
- One home confirmed destroyed
SOUTH AUSTRALIA:
- One person dead
- About 20 bushfires burning, three of significance
- More than 60,000 hectares burned
- 88 homes confirmed destroyed
QUEENSLAND:
- About 30 bushfires burning
- 250,000 hectares burned
- 45 homes confirmed destroyed
WESTERN AUSTRALIA:
- More than 30 bushfires burning, two of significance
- 1.2 million hectares burned
- One home confirmed destroyed
Why were people made homeless by the Commonwealth Games?I've been involved in disaster deployment since 2013, floods, fires and (ffs) looking after people made homelessness by the Commonwealth games.
Why were people made homeless by the Commonwealth Games?
I have only seen the Australia’s bush fires on TV, and feel they are horrific on the human populations. The areas of families and properties affected seem to be sparsely populated. However, tourist town on the beach also have been affected and evacuated.
The point I am making is, I see the situation, a crisis of both environmental and humanitarian. Aussie fire fighters are doing what they can. It seems it is not a crisis for the allies of the Australia to offer help to bring it under control. Aussies have not even asked for international help. I see the international community or the western allies don’t get their priorities right when there is a need for support of an international coalition to disaster mitigation. They act much faster to act in a coalition for bombing raids in some parts of the world. I don’t quite understand this world order.
Another point, I have not seen the Aussie state applying any other possible measures like clearing woods around human habitations before the fire reaches the dwellings. I would have thought that might mitigate the disaster. God save them!
Being as many millions of animals have died it's been pretty horrific on the non-human populations tooI have only seen the Australia’s bush fires on TV, and feel they are horrific on the human populations. The areas of families and properties affected seem to be sparsely populated. However, tourist town on the beach also have been affected and evacuated.
The point I am making is, I see the situation, a crisis of both environmental and humanitarian. Aussie fire fighters are doing what they can. It seems it is not a crisis for the allies of the Australia to offer help to bring it under control. Aussies have not even asked for international help. I see the international community or the western allies don’t get their priorities right when there is a need for support of an international coalition to disaster mitigation. They act much faster to act in a coalition for bombing raids in some parts of the world. I don’t quite understand this world order.
Another point, I have not seen the Aussie state applying any other possible measures like clearing woods around human habitations before the fire reaches the dwellings. I would have thought that might mitigate the disaster. God save them!
hmmm @ international help.
69 canadian firefighters landed in Australia before Christmas.
More are on their way.
Only in Aus, the prime minister being called a fuckwit...