Australia Airdrops 2,000lbs of Carrots Over Fire-Ravaged Forests to Feed Starving, Endangered Wallabies

Australia Airdrops 2,000lbs of Carrots Over Fire-Ravaged Forests to Feed Starving, Endangered Wallabies
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As Australian bushfire relief efforts continue to benefit from international news coverage, charity and governmental organizations are joining forces to help displaced wildlife survive a new crisis: food scarcity.

Airplanes and helicopters are being used to drop food from the air to feed the starving marsupials that have thus far survived the 2019–2020 bushfire crisis. Survivors are not yet out of danger; rather, they are at serious risk of dying from their injuries or from starvation.