The Pigeon Express
The burning bushfire in Australia may have killed more than half a billion animals. An expert from the Australian biodiversity at the University of Sydney, Prof Chris Dickman n a statement said 480 million animals were directly killed as a result of the fires. These numbers are based on a report he co-wrote in 2007 […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday called off his visit to India due to the devastating bushfire crisis in his country. News of the visit being called off came after Morrison and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi held a telephone conversation on Friday. Massive fires ripped parts of Australia’s south-east for weeks with fire […]
Three fires have combined to form a single blaze bigger than Manhattan becoming to most catastrophic in the already devastating bushfires. The fires joined overnight in the Omeo region in Victoria state, creating a 23 square mile blaze according to Gippsland’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. In the neighbouring state of New South […]
Australia dispatched 3,000 reserve troops to help contain the raging bushfires across the country. Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said this is the first time this has happened in Australia’s history. The temperatures have surpassed 40C in parts of south-east Australia. Officials had warned that Saturday was set to be a “dangerous day”. Since September, fires in […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was heckled in a town ravaged by bushfires, piling pressure on the leader amid death of at least 18 people. An angry firefighter refused to shake Morrison’s hand when he visited the town of Cobargo in New South Wales state on Thursday. Video footage showed Morrison tried to grab the […]
Australian state of New South Wales declared a state of emergency for seven days, forcing immediate evacuation from fire-stricken areas as the deadly blaze continues. State Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Thursday that the emergency declaration would come into effect Friday morning as weather conditions are expected to deteriorate significantly on Saturday, raising the fire danger […]
More than 100 fires, including three emergency level bushfires, are burning across New South Wales until Monday evening. “There are nearly 120 bush and grass fires burning across the state and around 70 are not yet contained,” the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said in a tweet. Earlier the Gospers Mountain Fire in the […]
Hundreds of koalas are feared to have died in an Australian bushfire, animal rescuers say. The blaze burnt through 2,000 hectares of bush containing a prime koala breeding ground in New South Wales, around 250 miles north of Sydney. Rescuers said the deaths were particularly tragic as the koalas were of stronger breeds, with one […]
A bushfire emergency was declared in Australia’s Queensland state. The residents on the path of the blaze were asked to evacuate immediately. Over 144 bushfire incidents were reported simultaneously. The strong winds and high temperatures across the area is making it more difficult for the firefighters. Bushfires in Deepwater, Eungella, Tinnanbar, Karara, Warwick and North […]