Worse than first estimates: billions of animals killed, displaced in Black Summer bushfires

Kangaroos surrounded by burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, in March 2020

Kangaroos surrounded by burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, in March 2020 Source: AAP

SBS News In Depth
View Podcast Series

Get the SBS Audio app

Other ways to listen

And leading scientists say there is an unequivocal link between climate change and Australia's devastating summer bushfires.

Share

Latest podcast episodes

U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-IMF-WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton during the third leaders' debate (AAP)
OTM - Generic 5, interest rates, stocks (Getty).jpg
Pope Francis memorial in New York, USA - 21 Apr 2025

Recommended for you

A kitchen bench with a variety of proteins such as steak, nuts, fish, eggs, chicken and peas.
A digital graphic of a passport with the word 'denied' over it and the silhouette of a woman.
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers on a split red and green background with a bug white thumbs up and a thumbs down
A stylised image of the Australian parliament with a colourful pattern around it.
Image showing a postal vote application form, envelope and mail boxes
A man in black glasses and a navy blue jumper standing side on in an outback landscape
A very close-up shot of a woman and a 7-year-old boy both smiling and wearing green and white headbands
A row of people standing in shallow waters.