Australia Fires Animals Extinct. The morrison government has released a list of animals hit hardest by bushfires, with threatened species commissioner sally box warning some species are now that much closer to extinction. A koala is pictured in queensland, australia.

Nearly 20 million acres have burned across the country, and authorities say the fires could keep burning for months. Some of the species most at risk from australia's bushfire crisis this article is more than 10 months old fires take an enormous toll on wildlife, with huge numbers of mammals. The kangaroo island dunnart is believed to be among the species worst affected by the bushfires.

An estimated 1 billion animals have already been killed.

There are 24 birds (one from the mainland), seven frogs, and 27 mammal species or subspecies strongly believed to have become extinct in australia since european settlement. A koala is pictured in queensland, australia. Most of australia is made of an inhabitable desert, and for this reason, 90% of humans there live along the. 15, 2020 the australian bushfires have exacted an enormous, irreversible toll on the country's wildlife.