Australia fires: Air-dropping veggies to feed wallabies [NEW VIDEO]
by Xeni Jardin from on (#4Y2Q5)
The massive scale and force of the ongoing bushfires in Australia is hard to comprehend.
The number of living creatures killed by flame, smoke, and habitat destruction fires is already staggering, and incomplete.
Here is a new video from Reuters with more on a story we've covered here at Boing Boing previously -- NWS workers are dropping vegetables like carrots and sweet potatoes from aircraft, to feed displaced wallabies who can't find anything to eat because everything has burned.
Video: Reuters
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" Australia fires: Carrots and sweet potatoes dropped from the air to feed starving animals