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Costing the Earth: Bushfire Animal Rescue

Bushfire Animal Rescue

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Can Australia's unique animal life bounce back from bushfire devastation?

Can Australia's unique animal life bounce back from bushfire devastation? Peter Hadfield meets the locals returning injured koalas to their home range.

Record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought fuelled a series of massive bushfires across Australia last winter.  Dozens of people died and millions of hectares of bushland and forest were burnt.

Australia's plant and animal life are well adapted to natural fire but the additional burden of climate change ensured that many of the fires were more intense and widespread than ever before.  Much of the country's unique fauna had nowhere to hide.

Peter Hadfield travels through the fire-ravaged regions of New South Wales to discover how local people are working to return injured animals to the wild and prepare habitats for a future that can only get hotter.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

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