"Operation Rock Wallaby" was commissioned to send thousands of vegetables from the sky to feed brush-tailed rock wallabies -- an endangered species at risk of extinction
According to a recent estimate from the University of Sydney, over 1 billion animals already may have died as officials warned that Australia's wildfire season -- which generally would last through March -- was nowhere near its end. On Sunday, helicopters loaded with boxes of sweet potatoes and carrots flew over bushland and canyons. As raging bushfires continue to decimate the animal population of Australia, rescue efforts to save survivors are mounting. Estimates place the death toll anywhere in the millions to billions (although, the accuracy of these figures is up for debate), and hundreds of thousands remain stranded in their burned environments. Chief among them are wallabies, a population that was already at-risk before the fires began. "The wallabies typically survive the fire itself, but are then left stranded with limited natural food as the fire takes out the vegetation around their rocky habitat," said Energ...