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Australian government drops 4,000 pounds of food to save starving wildlife
Helicopters were used to feed animals displaced by the wildfire crisis.
By  Karma Allen
January 12, 2020, 4:59 PM

 The Australian government is using helicopters and airplanes to help feed starving animals displaced by the country's wildfire crisis.

The New South Wales government used aircraft to drop more than 4,000 pounds of food, mostly carrots and sweet potatoes, to colonies of brush-tailed rock-wallabies that were left stranded as massive wildfires ravaged their habitat.

The brush-tailed rock-wallaby was already endangered in southeastern Australia before the fires began in September and government officials said their survival could be complicated further by the ongoing crisis. The fires are estimated to have killed more than a billion animals and scorched more than 8.4 million hectacres -- about twice the size of Maryland.

See more at: https://abcnews.go.com/International/australian-government-drops-4000-pounds-food-save-starving/story?id=68232639

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