Australia
"I have never seen anything like this before, and I’ve been in and around this stuff for 20 years," the CEO of one environmental group reveals.
The moment was captured on Kangaroo Island, which one shaken rescuer said has "bodies of charred animals as far as the eye can see.”
Conservation dogs are being used to sniff out injured koalas as the devastating bushfires continue in Australia. Taylor, a four-year-old Springer Spaniel has been trained to sniff out their fur and their scats. Over 30,000 koalas died in the fires on Kangaroo Island alone. The World Wide fund for Nature estimates that 1.25 billion animals have been killed in the fires.
Wollemi pines have ancestors dating back 200 million years.
James and Kathryn Murdoch said they were “disappointed with the ongoing denial” after months of devastating fires in Australia.
The tennis player slumped to her knees, struggling to breathe, and said she had "never experienced something like this before".
Critics felt that the Amazon CEO, whose personal net worth is estimated to be more than £85 billion, could have contributed more.
Almost 500m animals are believed to have been killed in the state alone as a result of the bushfires.
The Fleabag star is the latest in a long line of celebrities to donate to the relief effort.
These picture show the sheer scale of the unprecedented crisis, as flames and smoke continue to choke parts of the nation.