Almost 3 billion animals affected by Australia's summer fires: report

Nearly 3 billion animals were killed or otherwise impacted by Australia's devastating 2019-2020 summer bushfires, an interim report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature showed on Tuesday.The figure -- comprised of 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds and 51 million frogs -- is almost three times larger than the original estimate of over 1 billion animals, made in January by University of Sydney professor and report overseer Chris Dickman."When you think about nearly 3 billion native animals being in the path of the fires, it is absolutely huge, it's a diff…READ FULL ARTICLE