Jordan Culver, USA TODAY PublishedPM ET Jan. (**********************************************************************************,Updated 14: ET Jan. (**********************************************************************************,************************************
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The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service in Australia provided a valuable assist to wallabies looking for a meal in the wake of devastating wildfires.
To help, the department made it rain carrots and sweet potatoes.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service dropped thousands of pounds of vegetables to assist the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby population, whose food sources were limited after wildfires tore through their habitats,according to the department.
In a statement, the department said, ” kilograms of sweet potato and carrot have been sent to six different colonies in the Capertee and Wolgan valleys; 4374 kilograms across five sites in Yengo National Park; almost 100 kilograms of food and water in the Kangaroo Valley, with similar drops having also taken place in Jenolan, Oxley Wild Rivers and Curracubundi national parks. “
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“The provision of supplementary food is one of the key strategies we are deploying to promote the survival and recovery of endangered species like the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, “New South Wales Minister for Energy and Environment Matt Kean said in a statement.
Kean said the food drop was the most widespread ever done for the Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies. He added that cameras are being set up to monitor the food and animals in the region.
The National Parks and Wildlife spokesperson said intensive feral predator control, which includes programs like fox control, will be implemented “to reduce further risk to the species.”
“At this stage, we expect to continue providing supplementary food to rock-wallaby populations until sufficient natural food resources and water become available again in the landscape, during post-fire recovery, “Kean said.
Animals in Australia have hit hard by the effects of scorching heat and brush fires.
The World Wildlife Fund in Australia estimates that as many as (1.) ********************************************************************************* billion billion animals may have been killeddirectly or indirectly from the fires that have burned in Australia since September.
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