As the Australian wildfires continue to burn, an estimated 500,000 animals have died due to the flames and conditions. Koala’s have especially been hard hit and a group of Australian teens have decided to help by saving as many Koala’s as humanly possible.
19-year-old Micah and 18-year-old Caleb are two such heroes and they’re being praised all over the net. These two cousins drove around Kangaroo Island, rescuing koalas and putting them in their car.
Cousins Micah (19) and Caleb (18) drove around rescuing as many koalas as they could
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The cousins plan to care for the Koala’s until they are able to be reentered back into the wild.
According to Micah and Caleb, around 60 percent of all the koalas they came across had, unfortunately, burned to death.
“This is our little koala rescue. Just trying to collect as many live ones as we can,” one of the cousins can be heard saying in a video clip they shot, showing the interior of their car.
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Image credits: Alternative 666
A university in Sydney estimates that near 500 million animals have been killed by the fires since September. Half a billion. Wombats, koalas, crocs, platypus, etc. are endangered or threatened species.
Meanwhile, Sam Mitchell, co-owner of the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, told the Guardian that people were delivering injured animals to them, including about 50 koalas.
“At least a third of what has been brought in we’ve had to euthanize, unfortunately,” Mitchell broke the sad news. “We are seeing many burns to hands and feet—fingernails melted off. For some, the burns are just too extreme.”
