Displaced and lost native animals and plants opinions ..

[roddy1960]

After the current fires are eventually exhausted one way or another , either by decent rainfall or if and when fuel loads and control sort it all out I've been thinking that this is going to have a massive impact on our wildlife and flora in a lot of the worst affected areas.

. I believe early estimates by the wildlife organisations are predicting it could be up to five hundred million animals wiped out .

Even for those that survive , there goes ever growing tracts of essential natural habitat that provides food , shelter and breeding areas for the native animals , birds and insects dependent on each other .

How is this going to impact of long term area survival of many species I wonder ?

This is surely one of the many heartbreaking outcomes unfolding as these fires wipe out so much land in each Australian State this summer .

At least with us humans we have a capacity to rebuild reasonably quickly but for habitat to regenerate enough to get wildlife back , it could take a lot longer . I hope it plays a pretty big part in the recovery planning in the next year or two especially where endangered wildlife is already a problem .

Love to know what you guys think in this regard also .