by Calla Wahlquist on (#4Y0F7)
Calls grow for mental health support for volunteers as images of animals killed in fires cause widespread distressThe bushfire crisis has caused a “collective grief†among wildlife carers, who say the “scent of death [is] in every breath†in fire-affected areas.The scale of the devastation – with more than a billion animals estimated to have died – has prompted renewed calls from some wildlife experts for mental health support for wildlife carers, almost a third of whom already experience “moderate to severe grief†as part of the ordinary course of their work. Continue reading...