Here is Australia’s brushfire situation broken down by the numbers. These are statistics pulled mostly from the Associated Press to help highlight the ongoing situation. There are six numbers in this article and you can read more by clicking the embedded tweet.
100
There are over 100 fires burning throughout the country at this time.
4,000,000
Over four million hectares of land have been burned so far, an area the size of Belgium.
4
The blaze is four times the size of the Amazon rainforest fire.
RT Claire Seaborn: Australia’s fires are not getting the public attention they deserve – an area bigger than the Netherlands has been destroyed, estimated 480 million animals killed, 13 people are dead#AustraliaBurning #ClimateEmegency pic.twitter.com/DODCexABpX
— Gabriel Schray (@schrayguy) January 3, 2020
30%
At this time it is believed that thirty percent of all koalas are gone.
213′
Flames are reportedly taller than the Sydney Opera House in places. An astonishing two hundred feet in the air.
106
The average temperature in Australia is reported to be over forty degrees Celsius. That’s one hundred and six degrees Fahrenheit.
Read more about the crisis in this piece on the amount of animals killed by the blaze:
There are real concerns entire species of plants and animals have been wiped out by fires that are raging through Australia#Animals #AUSFires #Australia #AustraliaBurns #AustraliaFires #Crisis #Ecosystem #Fire #Nature #News #Tragedy https://t.co/hayRHgn9mP
— Midwest Sports Network (@MWSNsports) January 3, 2020
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