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	Podcast:		The Signal
	Episode:		What the fires did to animals
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:17:10
	Publish Date:		2020-01-27 11:00:00
	Description:		The number of human lives and homes lost in the fires is meticulously counted, but the toll on wildlife is more mysterious. Joan Reed from Sydney Wildlife Rescue couldn’t see any animals when she reached the firegrounds. None in the wild, not even any dead on the side of the road. Then people started arriving at her mobile clinic, bringing kangaroos with burnt feet, wombats with throats burnt by smoke, birds that had been caught in the flames. It’s thought these fires have killed more than a billion animals in New South Wales and Victoria alone, species have almost certainly been driven to extinction. Some populations will recover quickly but for others it could take more than a century. So what’s holding them back? And what happens to them in the meantime?
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