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International news of the week 13012020

Name: International news of the week 13012020
Uploaded: 2020-08-11T10:38:24+02:00
Duration: 1 min 57 s

par MCE TV

Fires in Australia: a petition calls for the introduction of the koala in New Zealand! Thousands of people have signed a petition to introduce the koala to New Zealand To save this endangered species from the fire in Australia, a Wellington request was immediately rejected. An association called the Koala Relocation Society says these marsupials, who died in large numbers from the fires that devastated Australian forests, I found asylum in New Zealand, a country with nearly 30,000 hectares of eucalyptus. At the end of a study, Professor Chris Dickman of the University of Sydney estimated that one billion animals had died. a figure that includes mammals, birds and reptiles, but not insects or invertebrates. And there is a great concern for the survival of animals that are still alive due to the destruction of their habitat in the event of a fire. The petition has already collected 7,500 signatures, but said a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The government's goal was to regain control of the fires so that koalas "remained in their natural habitat". Any introduction of species into a new habitat can present a serious risk of destabilizing the balance of the species that already live there. Combined with a particularly severe drought in Australia, these fires are exacerbated by global warming. Scientists have long predicted that the recurrence of these extreme weather events will only get worse.