Koalas In Australia Are Getting Burned And Dehydrated By The Devastating Bushfires
Volunteer groups such as Koalas in Care have also taken in koalas found burned and dehydrated after the fires.
"This is the gruesome task of having to clean up burns and treat them and hope that their little paws recover," Christeen McLeod, who runs the group in New South Wales with her husband Paul,The couple runs a koala hospital in their home and treat the injured animals by sedating them when possible, cleaning their scorched fur and applying cream to burns. They were treating 24 koalas as of this week, including one they named Sooty.
"This fire's gone through our main koala habitat area, so we're expecting large numbers of koalas to come out of here," McLeod told ABC."We expect it to be quite devastating."
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