Incendios

Miro el video de una noticia sobre incendios en Nueva Gales del Sur, Australia. Suena la música de fondo del video, música de mal agüero.

"Los fuegos atrapan a 4.000 personas en una playa del sureste de Australia. Los incendios han dejado este martes al menos dos personas muertas y cinco desaparecidas". Fuente: https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/12/31/actualidad/1577781309_770744.html. Otro video, sin música ; al final se oyen pájaros : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/world/australia/fires.html. Más : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/opinion/australia-fires-climate-change.html.

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Solo media hora después. Tenía las orejas tapadas por los audífonos, con música, de la que oigo y vuelvo a oír. El piar de un pájaro desde u árbol dentro de la universidad me los hizo sacar. Buen auspicio venido, digamos, de afuera.

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Animales muertos

E360 DIGEST
JANUARY 8, 2020
1 Billion Animals Estimated Dead in Australian Wildfires
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia on January 2.
Scientists estimate that as many as 1 billion animals have died in Australia’s record-breaking wildfires
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Fuente: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/1-billion-animals-estimated-dead-in-australian-wildfires

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WORLD NEWS 01/02/2020 03:34 am ET Updated Jan 02, 2020
Nearly Half A Billion Animals Feared Dead In Australian Wildfires
Harrowing scenes showing fleeing kangaroos, burnt koalas and dead birds have appeared on social media.
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By Josephine Harvey
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Fuente: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/australian-wildfires-480-million-animals-dead_n_5e0d58e5e4b0b2520d1cb47f

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WORLD NEWS 01/06/2020 11:30 pm ET Updated Jan 07, 2020
Number Of Animals Feared Dead In Australia’s Wildfires Soars To Over 1 Billion
Ecologists at the University of Sydney and WWF Australia estimate that a billion is a conservative figure.
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By Josephine Harvey
SYDNEY ― The number of wildlife estimated to have died in Australia’s wildfire catastrophe has skyrocketed to more than 1 billion.
Chris Dickman, an ecologist at the University of Sydney, told HuffPost that his original estimate of 480 million animals was not only conservative, it was also exclusive to the state of New South Wales and excluded significant groups of wildlife for which they had no population data.
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Fuente: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/billion-animals-australia-fires_n_5e13be43e4b0843d361778a6

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Over 1 billion animals feared dead in Australian wildfires, experts say
Doyle Rice
USA TODAY
The loss includes thousands of koalas, along with other species such as kangaroos and wallabies.
This has the potential to hasten koalas’ slide towards extinction in the wild in eastern Australia.
The fires have killed 26 people, destroyed 2,000 homes and scorched an area twice the size of Maryland.
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Fuente: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/01/08/australian-fires-over-1-billion-animals-feared-dead-experts-say/2845084001/

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Una foto

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/australia-wildfires-devastating-photo-shows-171207803.html

La misma foto

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/vVHvQaYt6t6DPVWlNHHoTA--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_577/10458c0b25b8fcce4ea53747c7c6290d