How do wildfires start?
Alaka'i Hennings February 5,2020 Carreira Period 2 A billion animals caught in Australia's fires; some may go extinct In the article that I read, it is about how wildlife is affected by wildfires. The article especially talks about a rare mammal, the Dunnart, is severally effected by the wildfires in Australia. The Dunnart is already a very rare mammal that is rarely ever been spotted. The only place currently known that Dunnarts still exist was scorched on the 1,7000-square-mile island of Kangaroo Island. These small rat-like mammals are not the only ones that are being severally affected by these wildfires, the millions of insects and plants that help feed the local populations of Australia's wildlife is being affected. The article also states that even though animals like the Koala, Platypus, and Kangaroo's are becoming the symbols of the wildfires victims, they do are not on the edge of extinction. Many species of animals and plants that are found no wher...