Are Australia’s koalas going extinct? We asked an ecologist.

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  • @Vox
    @Vox  4 роки тому +675

    Since September, Australia's wildfires have burned through an area larger than Portugal. Read more about the devastation and what you can do to help: bit.ly/2QTKd7C

    • @TheNextTurn
      @TheNextTurn 4 роки тому +7

      OK nice fact ... you going to call out the Banks for investing BILLIONS in fossil fuels

    • @rapzell6916
      @rapzell6916 4 роки тому +5

      I live in Austraila and it's not as bad as people think

    • @zak.886
      @zak.886 4 роки тому +14

      @@rapzell6916 but are you near the fires??

    • @shuttle9766
      @shuttle9766 4 роки тому +14

      bruuuh they ARE as bad as you hear.

    • @coleparkhurst1434
      @coleparkhurst1434 4 роки тому +2

      Somethings way off. Portugal is not big at all. My state (New York) is 55,000 square miles. Portugal is only 35,000 square miles. So to me with the species already endangered and not that many off them, especially being on a verge of a desert before the fires there is 100% absolutely no way over a billion lives lost. Its horrible but something doesnt add up. Australia is just in it for the money from all over the world. I would understand a couple million but no way billion. The USA has way more animals in an area thats a fact. I look out of my window. I see a heard of 20 deer, a couple red fox and some squirrels. And then a flock of literally hundereds of thousands of snow geese fly over.

  • @pegeonpera
    @pegeonpera 4 роки тому +8838

    "Koala numbers over the last 230 years have fallen by 95%"
    That hurts

    • @lgbtqiarights
      @lgbtqiarights 4 роки тому +133

      i just went into cardiac arrest reading this

    • @dracovirals7705
      @dracovirals7705 4 роки тому +107

      Hard truth is all marsupials are going extinct

    • @electronresonator8882
      @electronresonator8882 4 роки тому +12

      the aborigines missing their chance to slaughter those animals for so many years in the past

    • @azhari06
      @azhari06 4 роки тому +23

      Who's fault was that? The Aussies. 🤔

    • @cindyqueen7228
      @cindyqueen7228 4 роки тому +97

      Thanks to the colonizers (white ppl)

  • @marikalisoni3022
    @marikalisoni3022 4 роки тому +4092

    this makes me so sad and I’m glad that everyone is talking about what’s happening in Australia more, it really needs everybody’s concern

    • @keysangyonthan
      @keysangyonthan 4 роки тому +20

      Taking won't help I guess

    • @marikalisoni3022
      @marikalisoni3022 4 роки тому +51

      Keysang Yonthan no, of course only talking about is it’s not going to help, but it’s a fundamental step since a lot of people still don’t know or are disinterested about what’s happening

    • @StreetDrilla
      @StreetDrilla 4 роки тому +14

      yes taking wont help

    • @kshatriya1414
      @kshatriya1414 4 роки тому +13

      I totally agree with you!. it Won’t do anything to the situation in Australia but it might make people wake up to the issue we are facing and that Australia is not the only country who will be affected by this.

    • @kshatriya1414
      @kshatriya1414 4 роки тому +14

      channel break Good job spreading the Misinformation!

  • @chethan579
    @chethan579 4 роки тому +3803

    "Billion"
    This time it's sorrowful to hear this word

    • @MinenArbeiterLP
      @MinenArbeiterLP 4 роки тому +22

      @@mxpicilarry no

    • @gonnabeok
      @gonnabeok 4 роки тому +13

      If it was 'billion of dollars' then it would be truly bitter

    • @shubhampreetsingh8630
      @shubhampreetsingh8630 4 роки тому +10

      @@mxpicilarry What aboutism!!

    • @LawanaWita
      @LawanaWita 4 роки тому +4

      He is counting insects too

    • @03Epicman
      @03Epicman 4 роки тому +1

      Nur Setyawan I'm not sure about this new billion one but I rmm when ppl were saying half a billion that didn't include insects and birds

  • @TheRishabhkumar
    @TheRishabhkumar 4 роки тому +1383

    A billion animals burnt to death within a few days. It's so hard to comprehend that happening but sadly it is.

    • @k.lalhmingsanga4262
      @k.lalhmingsanga4262 4 роки тому +82

      Not days. Months 😭

    • @skiingcrocodile2153
      @skiingcrocodile2153 4 роки тому +65

      It's been going on for months and months, not just a few days

    • @electronresonator8882
      @electronresonator8882 4 роки тому +13

      chickens : "dude, seriously?"

    • @bluebaconjake405
      @bluebaconjake405 4 роки тому +24

      Rishabh Kumar australia has been on fire since last year (September i think)

    • @eprincess0126
      @eprincess0126 4 роки тому +13

      S Marie I wanna emphasize your point.
      7.5 BILLION EACH. DAY.
      Do people really care about animal suffering like they pretend to, or do they care about koalas over other animals because of their looks or them being a spectacle to people?

  • @Faffling94
    @Faffling94 4 роки тому +849

    To everybody: If that hurts, go watch the movie 'Racing Exctinction'.
    This heartbreaking movie will tell you more about this. Should be available on Netflix in a lot of countries.

    • @jk-gb4et
      @jk-gb4et 4 роки тому +48

      No if it hurts, go donate to Australia

    • @Faffling94
      @Faffling94 4 роки тому +48

      @@jk-gb4et Watching the movie does not exclude donations. But this movie is fantastic.

    • @lfle9933
      @lfle9933 4 роки тому +10

      I've watched it before. It did actually scare me because of what can happen if we don't do anything in time.

    • @MC-pn6iy
      @MC-pn6iy 4 роки тому +1

      Faffling94 i can’t find it on Netflix :/

    • @Chloe-ei1nc
      @Chloe-ei1nc 4 роки тому +14

      @@jk-gb4et I think raising awareness about climate change is as critical as donating to Australia. As said in the video, this is not just a problem in Australia and will happen all over the world if we do not take action about global warming.

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 4 роки тому +829

    Koalas are already rare
    and now their environment has become more of a threat to them than before
    They need all the help they can get during these dire times

    • @blahbleh5671
      @blahbleh5671 4 роки тому

      donate all your wealth pls

    • @aviralmishraofficial1626
      @aviralmishraofficial1626 4 роки тому +2

      We all are a threat to them not environment

    • @jul2447
      @jul2447 4 роки тому

      @@AI_mod the climate changed right

    • @vandy5206
      @vandy5206 4 роки тому +4

      They aren’t that rare but ok. A whole lot of the country hasn’t been touched by the fires

    • @NVangN
      @NVangN 4 роки тому +8

      @@vandy5206 rare relative to what they used to be

  • @nyxquatorze5600
    @nyxquatorze5600 4 роки тому +270

    95%. That breaks my heart.

    • @eso104
      @eso104 4 роки тому +3

      I feel your pain I can't believe these Muslims would do this

    • @anaklautancui8961
      @anaklautancui8961 4 роки тому +1

      @@eso104 lol

    • @pilotreg2657
      @pilotreg2657 4 роки тому +2

      @@eso104 lol but that's 'kinda' rude

    • @pilotreg2657
      @pilotreg2657 4 роки тому +5

      There are plenty of charities you cloud donate to and help the poor koalas, kangaroo ect. And we can still have hope that one day this crisis would end.

    • @nyxquatorze5600
      @nyxquatorze5600 4 роки тому

      @@pilotreg2657 Definitely going to be doing that.

  • @shwoorp
    @shwoorp 4 роки тому +381

    it’s so disappointing that people are willing to pay for new buildings to destroy wildlife, yet, when animals are going extinct, they’re silent.

    • @wooblebloc
      @wooblebloc 4 роки тому

      sleep is irrelevAnT such as?

    • @caidenh04
      @caidenh04 4 роки тому +3

      People are a walking sin.

    • @DoctorGrim456
      @DoctorGrim456 4 роки тому

      ᴇɴᴅᴇʀ - apparently we are the only ones who can sin

    • @BradleyWLloyd
      @BradleyWLloyd 4 роки тому +2

      Doctor Grim Humans created the concept of sin, so yes.

    • @nicolasd2079
      @nicolasd2079 4 роки тому

      Yep and it's a paradox since buildings created are giving work to people who need it, it destroys some forest but would you prefer that animals go extinct or thousands of people live as homeless..? it's quite complicated

  • @unknown-fp3sy
    @unknown-fp3sy 4 роки тому +501

    Don't play back ground music while he is answering. It is distracting.

    • @Rex-yb2nc
      @Rex-yb2nc 4 роки тому +10

      True

    • @MrJustin2105
      @MrJustin2105 4 роки тому +13

      it makes it sound like a race, my heart was racing and I just started panicking then when it stopped it was relieving

    • @tonyfourpaws4511
      @tonyfourpaws4511 4 роки тому +5

      I'm sick of music being literally everywhere I go.

    • @ConPink
      @ConPink 4 роки тому +9

      Didn’t even notice there was music to be honest

    • @unknown-fp3sy
      @unknown-fp3sy 4 роки тому +2

      @@ConPink nice to have a concentration like that.

  • @naturenurture84
    @naturenurture84 4 роки тому +509

    Fire killed Koalas - 3%
    Humans killed Koalas - 95%

    • @junerye
      @junerye 4 роки тому +4

      This actually shows how big the fires are... Compared to even much more big hunting spree

    • @adamg2960
      @adamg2960 4 роки тому +30

      European colonizers to be exact.

    • @mho...
      @mho... 4 роки тому +12

      @@adamg2960 a fact ppl seem to always like to ignore^^

    • @claudia-uy5gk
      @claudia-uy5gk 4 роки тому

      My Nontraditional Life people have never hunted their national animal

    • @electronresonator8882
      @electronresonator8882 4 роки тому

      aborigines : "dang, we're missing our chance to slaughter those animals for so many years"

  • @alexanderswander8176
    @alexanderswander8176 4 роки тому +371

    The way the world is right now, the future doesn’t seem so promising.

    • @brawndo8726
      @brawndo8726 4 роки тому +8

      @BabbyThor Conflict is a function of resource availability. So what happens when crops start failing on a regular basis? Should we eat plastic like the bacteria or will people start warring for survival?

    • @Irken_Invader_Zim
      @Irken_Invader_Zim 4 роки тому +3

      World war 3 says hi

    • @InXLsisDeo
      @InXLsisDeo 4 роки тому +3

      @@brawndo8726 @BabbyThor is the kind of guy who thinks he can eat gold and dollar bills. He is the kind of guy who elects people who are responsible for the climate disaster. He denies the problem by throwing around false solutions. Ultimately, he firmly believes that capitalism solves all the problems despite the fact that capitalism doesn't solve the problem of limited resources and physical limits of nature, but instead worsens it.

    • @prestondinh725
      @prestondinh725 4 роки тому +9

      @@InXLsisDeo No, he was telling the truth. The reason the world seems so bad right now is because the media tells all the bad news, rather the good news. I don't exactly agree that humanity / earth is in a good state right now, but its blasphemous to say that its at its worse.

    • @prestondinh725
      @prestondinh725 4 роки тому +3

      @@InXLsisDeo My pops always told me that this generation would save us, and until the Earth is in complete ruins I'll stick by it.

  • @uK8cvPAq
    @uK8cvPAq 4 роки тому +533

    None of us are going to enjoy old age and retirement like our grandparents.

    • @lvcienes
      @lvcienes 4 роки тому +53

      That's true. Personally, I feel like old folks in 1970s-2010s live the best old life..

    • @hisisters3866
      @hisisters3866 4 роки тому +25

      uK8cvPAq yes, and we wont have a beautiful earth to live on either quite soon 😔

    • @jacobd1529
      @jacobd1529 4 роки тому +13

      SigmaTauri2 you’re delusional

    • @mambaramba
      @mambaramba 4 роки тому +21

      @SigmaTauri2 don't worry. It might seem hard to live his life, still people change too over generations. When he'll be an adult the world will be a different place, and he will manage.

    • @NickKhalifa
      @NickKhalifa 4 роки тому +1

      hey dud so accurate!

  • @MischievousMischief
    @MischievousMischief 4 роки тому +902

    Unfortunately there are still too many people in denial. Even in the comments…Only if the upper class burns there will be structural change happening.

    • @Wasserkaktus
      @Wasserkaktus 4 роки тому +57

      Maybe we should nudge them towards the fires.

    • @user-qr3ee3zp8q
      @user-qr3ee3zp8q 4 роки тому +39

      Dude, the upper class is mostly left nowadays and the common working class people mostly vote right.

    • @Wasserkaktus
      @Wasserkaktus 4 роки тому +90

      @@user-qr3ee3zp8q Environment protection goes far beyond "Left" and "Right". While Right-Wing elements are certainly the worst in deny and continuing environmentally unsustainably and sociopathic living, the Left, while acknowledging the problems, isn't really taking concrete steps either. The rich on either side can just throw money curtains around their field of vision to pretend that the problem isn't as bad as it actually is.

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 4 роки тому +5

      I thought California's fires frequently hit celebrity homes, which I'm sure would be in areas with a lot of upper class people right? so burning them doesn't seem to fix the problem

    • @Wasserkaktus
      @Wasserkaktus 4 роки тому +14

      @@lilaclizard4504 Not all rich people live in Malibu, CA.

  • @del7920
    @del7920 4 роки тому +80

    It doesn’t help that they continue deforestation. I live in Queensland and there’s constantly new land development and unnecessary shopping centres being built. It’s ridiculous and heartbreaking. No one cares here

    • @unknown-fp3sy
      @unknown-fp3sy 4 роки тому +1

      Same is in my country dear

    • @heybird5660
      @heybird5660 4 роки тому

      the government keeps bringing people in they have to live & shop somewhere

    • @kxngmars6527
      @kxngmars6527 4 роки тому +1

      Not to mention, the houses are like $550,000 and you could lick your neighbors garage.

    • @caidenh04
      @caidenh04 4 роки тому

      Politics are the biggest mistakes to be created

  • @highestqualitypigiron
    @highestqualitypigiron 4 роки тому +246

    Could you imagine if one billion humans died? It would be the worst mass extinction of people ever to occur.

    • @symlaassiabelmokhi565
      @symlaassiabelmokhi565 4 роки тому +20

      Perfect

    • @quayaba
      @quayaba 4 роки тому +17

      Splendid

    • @Casperlova
      @Casperlova 4 роки тому +4

      W

    • @alexabihabib8215
      @alexabihabib8215 4 роки тому +6

      Except animals aren't all one species like humans. Choose a specific animal and then it's comparable

    • @thingswhatilike
      @thingswhatilike 4 роки тому +17

      You people are so cruel. Can't you people love every living things?

  • @paperbags7670
    @paperbags7670 4 роки тому +497

    These fires are all due to miss management from our incompetent government... To busy focused on the "economy" and not on our environment

    • @reeeteee2526
      @reeeteee2526 4 роки тому +10

      Paper Bags Hold up, they’ve made “carbon sinks”, stopped people from doing controlled burns, and more.

    • @mnichols1979
      @mnichols1979 4 роки тому +12

      It's humans that are the first ones responsible. Governments are set up by humans.

    • @SmashupPvper
      @SmashupPvper 4 роки тому +9

      Not sure how a government could stop purposely lit fires but whatever

    • @GeneralHiro
      @GeneralHiro 4 роки тому +50

      Fire Fighters in Australia have been complaining for YEARS that they are underfunded, under staffed and don't have the equipment to handle a major situation if it occurred. And now here we are...

    • @LashanR
      @LashanR 4 роки тому +6

      Scotty from Marketing 🙄

  • @elisanoro
    @elisanoro 4 роки тому +190

    “Billion”
    How could a small word be so painful to hear?

    • @Damo2690
      @Damo2690 4 роки тому +2

      To be fair there is a million billion ants in the world...i wonder what theyre counting as "an animal"

    • @Tom-ev1wi
      @Tom-ev1wi 4 роки тому +1

      @@Damo2690 One billion mammals, birds and reptiles as per the University of Sydney study. The study did not count insects for obvious reasons.

  • @synthima
    @synthima 4 роки тому +73

    Most people only talk about problems when it becomes a threat

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 роки тому +13

      Most people only talk about problems when it becomes a threat to them.
      And only demand help when they are already affected by it.

    • @damienpol5215
      @damienpol5215 4 роки тому +1

      Fires have been a threat in Australia for hundreds of years. This is tragic but it's nothing new unless you're an ignorant millennial on Twitter.

    • @bluebaconjake405
      @bluebaconjake405 4 роки тому +1

      Damien Pol i know that australia has fire seasons every year. But this one has been going on since last year tho...

    • @hashimrabani2718
      @hashimrabani2718 4 роки тому +1

      this would have happened anyway without man-made global warming. Just at a later date cause the earth is naturally warming up.... Climate Change is natural!

    • @burnt.armeen9089
      @burnt.armeen9089 4 роки тому

      Yea

  • @mochithepooh5368
    @mochithepooh5368 4 роки тому +156

    You know those sci-fi movies where the rich left the earth or create some kind of ring world, those might be more realistic than you think. Because these rich people will leave the earth if the earth become too unbearable.

    • @merrymachiavelli2041
      @merrymachiavelli2041 4 роки тому +11

      Not really. I really wish people would stop being so hyperbolic - climate change is, yes, the paramount issue of our times and globally we can and should be going more, more urgently to stop it. It has caused extinctions and will continue to do so and hundreds of millions of people may face famines or economic hardship as a result. BUT - there is an incredibly long way from that to Earth being rendered uninhabitable. There will still be a breathable atmosphere. There will still be liquid water on the surface. We will still have gravity. Humans as a whole will ultimately survive. Being hyperbolic helps nobody.

    • @jithinramesh3022
      @jithinramesh3022 4 роки тому +20

      @@merrymachiavelli2041 the problem with your argument is that you assume that the privileged and the rich will continue to live on a planet ravaged by climate change when an alternative is possible.

    • @mochithepooh5368
      @mochithepooh5368 4 роки тому +8

      @@merrymachiavelli2041
      You don't need to be hyperbolic about it. The reality itself is already scary enough. Record breaking wild fires, floods, drought, hot summer, Cat 5 hurricanes.

    • @anonmouse6337
      @anonmouse6337 4 роки тому +6

      @@jithinramesh3022 Well, where else are they going to go? It's not like there's some nirvana just waiting for humans to start inhabiting. Mars is a ways away from being survivable to humans, let alone be comfortably inhabitable and it will be an age before earth's climate is so extreme that living in a space shuttle is preferable.

    • @electronresonator8882
      @electronresonator8882 4 роки тому

      make sense, they're billionaires, they can afford such thing

  • @anew5118
    @anew5118 4 роки тому +201

    We have a duty to help those we inhabit the Earth with!

    • @electronresonator8882
      @electronresonator8882 4 роки тому +8

      do you even help your own species first? so many people are living in poverty

    • @benrodir2
      @benrodir2 4 роки тому +1

      yeah, dont start fires!

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 4 роки тому +10

      @@electronresonator8882 that's unrelated! Many people are homeless too, they're welcome to move into the possum box I put on my tree if they would like to, but they don't seem able or willing to do that, so are you suggesting I shouldn't have put that box there because I didn't have the resources to first give homes to all homeless humans?

    • @C-64
      @C-64 4 роки тому

      Lilac Lizard , if a homeless man started living in there you’d freak tf out

    • @ericwashington3470
      @ericwashington3470 4 роки тому +6

      @@electronresonator8882 if we keep destroying the planet things will get much worse for people living in poverty than they are now

  • @obeytweety
    @obeytweety 4 роки тому +83

    This hits me with different kind of sadness

    • @vplazmazz
      @vplazmazz 4 роки тому +3

      As long as human beings are not in danger who cares?

    • @Alpha-gk6hd
      @Alpha-gk6hd 4 роки тому +4

      El Greco
      You realise it makes things worse when animals go extinct

  • @masterdan1803
    @masterdan1803 4 роки тому +89

    “Are Koalas going extinct?”
    *Takes one glance at Australia*
    Hmmm I don’t know...

  • @Momo-kq9hd
    @Momo-kq9hd 4 роки тому +24

    The scariest thing is : will wealthy corporations and governments take actions against climate change and protecting wild animals.! .?? I don’t think they care... only money catches their interest.

    • @aiiv7839
      @aiiv7839 4 роки тому

      When will these cooperations realize that if their actions cause environmental degradation, and potential human extinction, they will get NO MORE MONEY because who or whar will give it to them?!

  • @LapisGoBlue
    @LapisGoBlue 4 роки тому +55

    A koala could come to my backyard 😢

    • @eso104
      @eso104 4 роки тому +3

      I can't believe the Muslims in Australia would do this

    • @nickstav08
      @nickstav08 4 роки тому +7

      @@eso104 thats a conspiracy theory...

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 4 роки тому +12

      yeh most of us in Australia are happy for most of our wildlife to share our backyards with us & put out water & plant plants specifically to make them feel welcome, that includes not just koalas, but also the possums, biirds & reptiles, Part of the problem with bushfires can be their ability to spread through the "bush corridors" we have to allow native animals to freely move around in suburbia to share our land with us instead of evicting them & many native animals here actually do much better in suburbia than national parks. Koalas are not one of those, but plenty are :) blue tounge lizards & brush turkeys are 2 great examples of animals that thrive in suburban areas over bush, all the parrots too, since they're too adorable, so people can't resist feeding them & encouraging more of them to live with them

    • @LapisGoBlue
      @LapisGoBlue 4 роки тому +1

      Lilac Lizard I wish I could fly over there rn and help 😢

    • @InayahEleven
      @InayahEleven 4 роки тому +2

      Soul Esoteric V
      What did they muslims do ?

  • @bukowski4320
    @bukowski4320 4 роки тому +135

    I can’t watch this I think I’m gonna cry :’(

  • @DayaChowdry
    @DayaChowdry 4 роки тому +35

    That koala 🐨 in thumbnail is making me literally cry.

  • @spctifys
    @spctifys 4 роки тому +5

    Dear 2045, I don’t think we’re gonna survive...

  • @AthanasiaKo
    @AthanasiaKo 4 роки тому +5

    Nature has been fought and now it fights back. My heart cries for these beautiful and peaceful souls.

  • @amandajensen3382
    @amandajensen3382 4 роки тому +2

    I'm an ecology student. Even with climate change, this would NEVER have happened if it wasn't for the policy of fire prevention over prescribed burning and fire management. The Aboriginals burned the land for thousands of years, they kept it healthy by setting small contained fires. This prevented brush and tinder from building up to a level high enough to enable a dangerously large fire. The same exact practice was done by the native peoples of the United States. When the Europeans came to these places, they enacted fire prevention, because that's what the climate of Europe is suitable for. They didn't understand that that doesn't work for these new environments, where fire is healthy and necessary to sustain the plants and animals that live there. The California wildfires are also a great example of this. Those people's homes should have NEVER been built in those areas, it's like building in a flood plain. Those areas need to be burned regularly. The only way to keep them from burning is to remove all fire adapted trees. Climate change is only going to amplify this problem wildly. That's all. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. 😑

    • @Sebzthesmooth
      @Sebzthesmooth 4 роки тому +1

      Finally atleast someone in the comments recognises this. Thank you

  • @notastrangeperson2298
    @notastrangeperson2298 4 роки тому +160

    Imagine being the person who sees this, and then says
    “Pssshhh, climate change! Yeah right!”

    • @kylemutti2992
      @kylemutti2992 4 роки тому +8

      Rasputin Russia’s Greatest Love Machine the climate has always changed tho!!! The earth has always gotten warmer! They don’t deny it’s real but it has always occurred. Where are all the wholly mammoths and Sabre tooth tigers? Extinct from global warming which happened naturally without human intervention.

    • @elkinshiner5066
      @elkinshiner5066 4 роки тому +32

      What’s scary is that half of America (pretty much all Trump supporters) don’t believe in man-made climate change no matter how much evidence is presented to them. Same can be said for many conservative governments around the world as well.

    • @Michelley1025
      @Michelley1025 4 роки тому +9

      @@elkinshiner5066 Trump supporters have nothing to do with this. Right now we have to help Australia.

    • @johnwright7916
      @johnwright7916 4 роки тому +6

      @@kylemutti2992 Not at this rate though, that is the difference!! The ecosystem can't adapt in time, go look up insect populations

    • @johnwright7916
      @johnwright7916 4 роки тому +12

      @@kylemutti2992 Also, weren't humans the ones to over hunt Mammoth's back in the day due to our overly efficient hunting techniques that drove them to extinction?

  • @felixvisuals6800
    @felixvisuals6800 4 роки тому +26

    Koalas dont need to Go extinct!
    :(

    • @damotoneko1500
      @damotoneko1500 4 роки тому +3

      Koalas are adorable and even if they werent i dont want any animal to go extinct from this!

    • @zamdhey1442
      @zamdhey1442 4 роки тому

      DA MotoNeko then you have dinosaurs

    • @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN
      @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN 4 роки тому

      @@zamdhey1442 and fortnite...

  • @jennym007
    @jennym007 4 роки тому +13

    I can’t watch this because it’s so upsetting.
    But know that I have donated to the wildlife service WIRES AUSTRALIA and the RSPCA BUSHFIRE APPEAL and I encourage others to do so.

    • @jeffffro7674
      @jeffffro7674 4 роки тому +2

      @Ricardo S you have to pick and choose. I understand what you're saying, but donations to a situation like this, you can feel confident that the majority of your gift WILL go to ending this tragedy as quickly as possible! Combating stuff like this is life threatening, time consuming, VERY expensive, and requires a ton of man hours and effort every single day until it gets close to controlled! The sooner the better cause like he said, a lot of wildlife can't do anything to avoid these fires, they are literally being surrounded and trapped. Its unbelievably difficult to think of.

    • @grubbybum3614
      @grubbybum3614 4 роки тому +1

      @Ricardo S sorry, but by law, it's impossible for a non profit to become a 'business' like you said. The RSPCA is ultimately controlled by the Queen.

  • @lalitsharma8737
    @lalitsharma8737 4 роки тому +14

    I'M CRYING FOR ALL THOSE ANIMALS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES....GOD BLESS AUSTRALIA....GOD BLESS THE EARTH.

    • @explicit5111
      @explicit5111 4 роки тому

      God Bless Iron Man.

    • @spatrickification
      @spatrickification 4 роки тому +2

      god bless the fire nation

    • @RichARock
      @RichARock 4 роки тому +1

      Sensitive deluded toss head everytime something goes wrong you lay on the floor praying? Look where that got us during mass genocides for example, no where

  • @axelfoley133
    @axelfoley133 4 роки тому +90

    The liberal government (conservatives in Australia) would like to kindly remind you that these koalas' deaths, while tragic, probably raised profits some multinational corporations for a while, and that ain't bad.
    (Yes that's sarcasm)

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 роки тому +1

      Announcement from the Australian government: "Now we can sell a buch of charcoal next to our coal"
      Murdoch press: "Morrison creates new jobs and saves Australian economy"

  • @MannyRamirez310
    @MannyRamirez310 4 роки тому +9

    My co workers: "I shot some ducks over the weekend"
    "OMG, have you seen what's happening in Australia? Poor animals ☹️"

    • @nordic5490
      @nordic5490 4 роки тому

      You shoot ? ??? Very few guns here in Oz.

    • @MannyRamirez310
      @MannyRamirez310 4 роки тому

      @@nordic5490 no I don't shoot, I'm not oppose to people having guns and I'm not oppose in people not having guns.

  • @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun
    @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun 4 роки тому +52

    Where is Mr. Beast when you needed him?

    • @luxembourgishempire2826
      @luxembourgishempire2826 4 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @electronresonator8882
      @electronresonator8882 4 роки тому

      he's planting trees

    • @DevanKhandagale
      @DevanKhandagale 4 роки тому +1

      Why does he have to do all the work

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 4 роки тому +1

      planting trees to fuel more fires
      & btw he was planting them at around 5000 trees per hectare, so with 5 million hectares burnt in Australia, how many trees is that planted in the end? minus what?

    • @mainecoon5459
      @mainecoon5459 4 роки тому +1

      @@lilaclizard4504 waw 5 million hectares... just... I'm so shocked

  • @OhShitReactions
    @OhShitReactions 4 роки тому +50

    Feel like they kinda cut him off at the end there...

  • @magicmystery4211
    @magicmystery4211 4 роки тому +1

    I would like to thank each and every person who helped during this crisis and also to those people who are still helping someway somewhere. We need to help these creatures.

  • @gabriella7574
    @gabriella7574 4 роки тому +2

    Being an Australian in Victoria at the moment only about 2 hour drive away from some of the big fires it’s pretty worrying our quality of air is very poor the temperature it’s always very hot we do our best to go to and help out by spreading awareness and raising money in our own communities to donate in others. A lot of people talk about how there are impacts now but looking back from previous fires it takes years and years to repair the damage that happens from these fires. Do every bit that you can do for the people, communities and animals that have lost what they have.

  • @thejeanlouw
    @thejeanlouw 4 роки тому +14

    Koalas: *exists (cutely)*
    Humans: hold my beer

  • @lordbawnchie
    @lordbawnchie 4 роки тому +22

    We love y'all Australia! 💔

  • @jacksonbradford5565
    @jacksonbradford5565 4 роки тому +6

    1 billion. I just can't process it. So many wonderful animals, just gone.
    Maybe if the governments were less concerned about their country being most powerful war-wise, then they might be able to help.

    • @thedarkwolf._.3135
      @thedarkwolf._.3135 4 роки тому

      australia is not a military focused nation, we focus more on economy, environment and the peoples wellbeing

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 4 роки тому

      @@thedarkwolf._.3135 Then stop building things and start planting trees once this is all over

    • @jacksonbradford5565
      @jacksonbradford5565 4 роки тому

      @@thedarkwolf._.3135 I was focusing more on countries like the US who aren't experiencing it but could help.

  • @uzzaaair7552
    @uzzaaair7552 4 роки тому +1

    the first thing i thought was "please lets save all the koalas"

  • @huntingluciferblack9265
    @huntingluciferblack9265 4 роки тому +1

    The koala will not go extinct because of the fires . There are populations that are unaffected by the fires . They will recover . It's been happening in Australia since before Whiteman .

  • @erikaessindo1916
    @erikaessindo1916 4 роки тому +3

    It's so sad and so irritating to me that when Notre Dame in France burned millionaires all over the world would donate money so that it could be rebuild. But now a whole *continent* is burning and a lot of those same millionaires do nothing.

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 4 роки тому

      Pink donated half a million of her own money & numerous others have done similar, as well as using their profile to obtain further donations

  • @krishnachattopadhyay3251
    @krishnachattopadhyay3251 4 роки тому +37

    I wouldnt have been this sad if humans went extinct

    • @salt7532
      @salt7532 4 роки тому +2

      @@username-1122 agreed

    • @abhinavburri
      @abhinavburri 4 роки тому +6

      @Abhirup Chattopadyay agreed, humans think they are so superior, but all we do is destroy.

    • @bejay5971
      @bejay5971 4 роки тому +5

      Imagine if earth never had evil humans on it. It would be the most amazing Planet ever with amazing life and beauty. Humans are cancer to all life

    • @NocturnalWrath
      @NocturnalWrath 4 роки тому +2

      Well yeah cause you'd be dead

    • @krishnachattopadhyay3251
      @krishnachattopadhyay3251 4 роки тому +1

      Really? I never thought about that...

  • @9krio
    @9krio 4 роки тому +59

    Meanwhile: the human population has increased to 8 Billion and there are now more people than jobs.

    • @mr.x2567
      @mr.x2567 4 роки тому +13

      This is why I don’t have a problem with homicide

    • @grimsonforce7504
      @grimsonforce7504 4 роки тому +11

      And it will get worse as people continuously breed human litters.

    • @Zikeal-d4l
      @Zikeal-d4l 4 роки тому +2

      @@borntofart Kind of sad that you liked your own comment and no one replied to you😂🤣

    • @gayguysthatscubadive
      @gayguysthatscubadive 4 роки тому +7

      I hate couples that have more than 2 kids the globe needs to adopt china's one child policy.

    • @brendanpospischil3871
      @brendanpospischil3871 4 роки тому

      @@gayguysthatscubadive Unfortunately, since we can't be bothered paying for our own retirement, we need to have more children constantly to offset it. Look at Japan, which has an 'ageing population'. That's what happens with a one-child policy.

  • @junerye
    @junerye 4 роки тому +1

    Every single one of you can help!!! You don't need to pay no charity. Simply eat less meat and slowly throw it out of your menu. Drive less, fly less and be more efficient. Your EVERY action has an impact on your sorroundings and you always have to have that in mind!

  • @jacksonbf
    @jacksonbf 4 роки тому +2

    Please get this trending!

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 4 роки тому +17

    Thank Coal-fondler-in-chief ScoMo for worsening the situation.

  • @jakebesaw
    @jakebesaw 4 роки тому +3

    Thank you for bringing awareness to this horrendous issue facing our country. 🇦🇺❤️

  • @CaratsRitzy
    @CaratsRitzy 4 роки тому +5

    Australian here, here's a few noteworthy things on the bushfires you can do to help:
    If you are visiting or plan to visit, help the fire impacted areas by supporting the local business. It's going to be a long recovery period for all these townfolks.
    They are going to need every bit of *financial* and *structural* support they can get. Buy their stuff, help with the rebuilding efforts.
    These small towns rely on seasonal tourism and agriculture to support their community.
    If you feel charitable, donate to all big and smaller native animal rescues organisations. Don't just focus on what's mentioned on the news, do your research.
    RSPCA is mostly responsible for domesticated animals around Australia. There isn't a *national wide* native animal rescue organisation, most are state or regional NGOs.
    (I wish we did, but there isn't enough funding for what they do.)
    Do pardon our poor excuse state of wellbeing. We ignored the warning signs until it buried us like the people of Pompeii.
    Don't be like a Scomo, be someone who pays attention and care for their country.

  • @thecitizenjoan
    @thecitizenjoan 4 роки тому +1

    1 Billion??? That number is unbelievable. 😞😞😞

  • @etiennekarekezi5513
    @etiennekarekezi5513 4 роки тому +2

    the moment human care more about animal than human

  • @ikeplumo3377
    @ikeplumo3377 4 роки тому +33

    here go humans acting like they care about earth again

    • @flores332
      @flores332 4 роки тому +6

      Ok boomer

    • @vplazmazz
      @vplazmazz 4 роки тому +2

      Dont worry about the earth! The Technologies that humans will create in the future will make humanity and the earth clean prosperous and safe! Human beings come first and then everything else do you understand!!

    • @ridhamh2966
      @ridhamh2966 4 роки тому +4

      This isn't the attitude for this situation. You can't change the world by a snap of finger(o.w we would not had any problems like global warming and and other pollution problems in the first place). You have to raise awareness. Remind/educate people again n again and then only you can change something which is important.. many people don't have enough sensitivity for such issue. we need to teach kids and everyone why this thing's are important.

    • @Dalavine
      @Dalavine 4 роки тому +1

      Most people do care but have no idea how to fix it. Legally the options are slow and probably won't be enough. Illegally... well... hopefully someone stops corporations and governments that are making the world worse.

    • @ikeplumo3377
      @ikeplumo3377 4 роки тому

      El Greco no

  • @MapleMilk
    @MapleMilk 4 роки тому +58

    "We're in a war zone"
    And gotdamn, Mother Nature is packing some heat

    • @DairangerSentai7
      @DairangerSentai7 4 роки тому +1

      Literally

    • @jocelyn9744
      @jocelyn9744 4 роки тому +2

      I'm scarred. This is the beginning and climate change is only getting worse...we seem to have fewer time left than we thought

    • @timtoci4871
      @timtoci4871 4 роки тому

      Multifansurfer x Climate change is not real tho

    • @ezra55595
      @ezra55595 4 роки тому +5

      This isn’t nature, this is the result of humans.

    • @Sebzthesmooth
      @Sebzthesmooth 4 роки тому +3

      @@jocelyn9744 well also the fact that annual hazard reduction burns have been reduced therefore increasing the magnitude of this season's bushfires. But everyone ignores this fact.

  • @vazak11
    @vazak11 4 роки тому +9

    Thanks for covering this.

  • @akihikosakurai4013
    @akihikosakurai4013 3 роки тому +1

    Koalas going extinct isn't very surprising when you look at their biology. It's nothing short of a MIRACLE that they survived as long as they did

  • @tomato-v8x
    @tomato-v8x 4 роки тому +3

    This fire made me realise how important koalas are

    • @tomato-v8x
      @tomato-v8x 4 роки тому

      Black Jesus they play an important part in helping maintain the ecosystem health of the environment

    • @tomato-v8x
      @tomato-v8x 4 роки тому

      Black Jesus or you can try searching it up on google, they sure got stuff for you.

  • @jamesmurphy2828
    @jamesmurphy2828 4 роки тому +4

    Issues like this need to replace war !
    Humanity doesn't need war hero's

  • @pheluma2394
    @pheluma2394 4 роки тому +4

    Shouldn't the description say these fires have been THE worst on record in Australia, and not one of the worst?

    • @Ricky911_
      @Ricky911_ 4 роки тому +2

      Ikr

    • @mncrft3386
      @mncrft3386 4 роки тому

      1979 was the worst. NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT

  • @saidemajou6600
    @saidemajou6600 4 роки тому +3

    1. Go to social media , your schools , city centers
    2. spread the word
    3. even if you cant help much people who hear about it might

  • @AcidAroma
    @AcidAroma 4 роки тому +2

    I’ve seriously thought about this and makes me so scared. We need to do whatever we can to help. We can’t let the marsupials go extinct

  • @Kurtizss
    @Kurtizss 4 роки тому +8

    "Australia Bushfire getting Worst"
    The Native people of Australia in 6300BCE: *First Time?*

  • @mynameisben123
    @mynameisben123 4 роки тому +4

    “Australia has bulldozed half of their forests”
    So you’re saying the fires would have been twice as bad otherwise?

  • @RTMonitor
    @RTMonitor 4 роки тому +10

    I think we should reduce our own people.

    • @aktanazat609
      @aktanazat609 4 роки тому +8

      I agree with you. You should start first?

    • @alek488
      @alek488 4 роки тому +1

      Resolvelution Tension go tell black people, Latino and people in the Middle East to stop having 100000 kids per family

    • @RTMonitor
      @RTMonitor 4 роки тому

      alek so you are a supremacist?

    • @notanevilrussian9674
      @notanevilrussian9674 4 роки тому

      That is already happening everyday, are you blind?

    • @johnathanera5863
      @johnathanera5863 4 роки тому

      Well that needs to happen period. I imagine strict control of how many children you can have is the best way.

  • @elborichu1
    @elborichu1 4 роки тому +7

    Breaks my heart !😔

  • @velocecarriola9214
    @velocecarriola9214 4 роки тому

    The bulk of population decrease in Australia is due to deforestation for pastoral use on the East Coast, then there is the mindless urban sprawl. The irony is so many people surprised by native animal decline are living in once thriving koala habitat which was bulldozed for their charming house and lawn package in the burbs...

  • @sourgrapes2135
    @sourgrapes2135 4 роки тому +1

    Now it's really hard to think of an animal that is not extinct 🥺

  • @travellerlorenz
    @travellerlorenz 4 роки тому +8

    So sad ! I love kolas !

  • @volksmann
    @volksmann 4 роки тому +6

    **climate change happens**
    Australia: **Burns**
    Indonesia: **Floods + Landslides**
    Australia: Bruh

    • @alek488
      @alek488 4 роки тому

      HypnoCriticalz landslides aren’t caused by climate change

    • @volksmann
      @volksmann 4 роки тому

      @@alek488 Bruh, it can be caused by flood

    • @brendanpospischil3871
      @brendanpospischil3871 4 роки тому

      We'd also have those if we got rain. Here it is either drought or flooding somewhere, we get fires and cyclones each summer, and even get the occasional earthquake.

  • @alex4863
    @alex4863 4 роки тому +3

    Literally when Australia caught fire, I was extremely worried about the wildlife, I hope theyll make this out of it ok soon.

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 4 роки тому

      the drought is actually of more threat to species extinctions than the fires are, that's what you should be worried about!

    • @indian-tech-support
      @indian-tech-support 4 роки тому

      @@lilaclizard4504 its both of them

  • @noobkid4579
    @noobkid4579 4 роки тому +1

    Pls noo. I feel so bad for endangered animals 😥😥

  • @nford4191
    @nford4191 4 роки тому +2

    I am the Lorax
    I speak for the trees,
    Safe Australia,
    Or I’ll BREAK YOUR KNEES

  • @robrto2411
    @robrto2411 4 роки тому +6

    The earth will be so much better without humans...

  • @Rohandutt
    @Rohandutt 4 роки тому +4

    Most of world’s greediest forest have been killed foreg:
    India : all forests were cut and British made 97 trillion $ . around 1600s - 1947 they looted India and it’s just an estimate . And you can imagine that money in these days . India was 25% of the worlds economy but now it’s 2.5% now imagine how much money it could be
    Amazon forest : burnt
    Australian forest : burnt
    Africa : doesnt affect as Africa have hot climate

    • @FortuitusVideo
      @FortuitusVideo 4 роки тому

      How dare the rest of the world develop economically! We should all implode so India can go back to being the ONLY place that makes textiles.

    • @capybun
      @capybun 4 роки тому

      @@FortuitusVideo the British caused he displacement numerous Indian tribes because they wanted wood to build their traintracks, they took all of India's treasure away and left them in poverty

    • @capybun
      @capybun 4 роки тому

      @@FortuitusVideo It is people like you who are he cause of what's happening to the planet

    • @FortuitusVideo
      @FortuitusVideo 4 роки тому +1

      @@capybun And yet India is one the most polluted countries on the planet. Have you seen the Ganges?

    • @superduperfreakyDj
      @superduperfreakyDj 4 роки тому

      Bruh Africa has some of the largest rainforest in the world

  • @milkwater9351
    @milkwater9351 4 роки тому +3

    These are the end days, my friends.
    I don’t see what we can do at this point. I think we should make peace with our loved ones now and prepare.

    • @christopherspecht2660
      @christopherspecht2660 4 роки тому +2

      Susan McSusanSon or you could participate in activism before the reversible becomes irreversible

  • @LeechLunch
    @LeechLunch 4 роки тому +2

    Short answer,
    *Yes.*

  • @reeeeeeeee1298
    @reeeeeeeee1298 4 роки тому +1

    Bushfires are a normal part of a functional ecosystem. But so is rain, and at some point, too much rain becomes a hurricane. Calling this a bushfire is an understatement. This is an inferno. This is catastrophic on a scale never seen before in Australia’s history. People need to know that what Australia is dealing with is different, its so much worse.

  • @inied4968
    @inied4968 4 роки тому +11

    Nature: When are humans going to extinct?

    • @umichgal1
      @umichgal1 4 роки тому

      Inie d seriously. We’ve GOT to do better.

    • @crushingit5128
      @crushingit5128 4 роки тому

      Humans will go extinct when the Earth is no longer able to be saved

    • @crushingit5128
      @crushingit5128 4 роки тому

      @@gayguysthatscubadivesure! we can make a pact

  • @18utkb
    @18utkb 4 роки тому +9

    This is so sad
    Pray for them 💔

  • @eastonperfect7915
    @eastonperfect7915 4 роки тому +8

    Where is Steve Irwin when you need him 😢

  • @jahanitahani
    @jahanitahani 4 роки тому

    0:20
    Rest of Australia: WERE INHALING A PACK OF CIGARETTES A DAY
    Darwin:

  • @krishnawidardjo5777
    @krishnawidardjo5777 4 роки тому

    Most efficient 4 minutes to explain what is happening in Australia. Thank you.

  • @MagnetoJones
    @MagnetoJones 4 роки тому +5

    ONE BILLION.
    Imagine if they were humans. That’s the entire population of the EU, USA, Canada, and Mexico.

    • @GauravSharma-dy8xv
      @GauravSharma-dy8xv 4 роки тому +1

      That's entire population of China or India😢

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 роки тому +3

      You know, 150 BILLION, yes BILLION, animals are slaughtered every year so you can eat cheap meat every single day. But hey, who cares, right.
      For most people, the lifes of animals have no value.
      When you watch world ending disaster movies, doesn't matter which one, they'll tell you that there are 7 billion lifes on the planet. Always completely ignoring that humans are not the only ones living here and that there are trillions of other lifeforms threatened as well.

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 роки тому +1

      @Ian Moore And I caught someone who is part of the problem

    • @explicit5111
      @explicit5111 4 роки тому

      And I am Iron Man.

    • @johnathanera5863
      @johnathanera5863 4 роки тому +1

      @Ian Moore and? Does that change the fact that hes right? No? Didnt think so.

  • @anndroid6483
    @anndroid6483 4 роки тому +7

    Humans are not koalafied to be on this planet

  • @TheMotherofBirds
    @TheMotherofBirds 4 роки тому +3

    😢😭😭😭😭😭😭 MY HEART IS BREAKING!!! 💔 they are the inoccent.

    • @grafuut1575
      @grafuut1575 4 роки тому

      Please don’t spam emojis. It doesn’t make the situation any better. It’s breaking my heart too.
      I feel like this is the start to all the other events that will slowly end our world, and that’s terrifying.

    • @TheMotherofBirds
      @TheMotherofBirds 4 роки тому

      @@grafuut1575 that's besides the point I can put emojis if I feel like it, its my comment not yours.

    • @vectr0z526
      @vectr0z526 4 роки тому

      German Shepard Is Love putting emojis in comments makes it seem as a joke, and as you have I couldn’t tell if it was a serious comment at a first glance.

  • @ssaifulhaq
    @ssaifulhaq 4 роки тому +2

    This breaks my heart.

  • @awekeningbro1207
    @awekeningbro1207 4 роки тому

    Export the koalas to other safe countries where they can adapt.

  • @savannahjames3259
    @savannahjames3259 4 роки тому +6

    Can they just please get a 5 day rainstorm😭

    • @Лцд-и6с
      @Лцд-и6с 4 роки тому

      Savannah James Well, mate, the last time that happened, we got a flood pretty bad.

    • @Лцд-и6с
      @Лцд-и6с 4 роки тому

      But this is not a normal bushfire season.

    • @savannahjames3259
      @savannahjames3259 4 роки тому

      Kelvoz true but everything is being killed something more needs to happen😭 maybe not a 5 day rainstorm but some pretty good heavy rain I really hope you guys can get those fires under control though

  • @GoronTico
    @GoronTico 4 роки тому +8

    I would love for 2020 to be the year when we finally see animals for what they are: Refugees of our war against nature

    • @abelzatyko1513
      @abelzatyko1513 4 роки тому +1

      We would just build walls to keep them out. Refugee has become a derogatory word over time.

    • @GoronTico
      @GoronTico 4 роки тому

      @J. Milton Jeffreys and you think you are not? lol

    • @Adv18
      @Adv18 4 роки тому

      Well we weren’t the first species/animal on this planet, so it’s us who are intruding on their world.

  • @nocturne9257
    @nocturne9257 4 роки тому +4

    UA-cam, put this on trending now.

    • @jakejones6481
      @jakejones6481 4 роки тому

      Its the people who do it and not youtube. And thats why its not gonna happen.

    • @jakejones6481
      @jakejones6481 4 роки тому

      Its the people who do it and not youtube. And thats why its not gonna happen.

  • @camerongray7767
    @camerongray7767 4 роки тому +1

    Yes I live in Australia and I doubt there will be any koalas left in 2050. Also for those who didn’t know we have lost 1 billion animals from the bushfires

  • @jairodrigo7701
    @jairodrigo7701 4 роки тому +1

    As an Australian this brings a tear to my eye 😞

  • @Taco1011
    @Taco1011 4 роки тому +4

    You could have had a content warning before you showed those videos of dying or injured Koala's

    • @giantrunt
      @giantrunt 4 роки тому

      They arent dying humans... people need to be less sensitive

  • @madmasseur6422
    @madmasseur6422 4 роки тому +4

    Anyone who wants to plant a tree should do it in Australia

  • @change8606
    @change8606 4 роки тому +4

    why is he shaking head when saying keeping this species alive

  • @Mr_Chris__
    @Mr_Chris__ 4 роки тому

    Koalas are such lovely animals. They need all the help they can get these days.

  • @kingdomoflions5391
    @kingdomoflions5391 4 роки тому +1

    Ecological sustenance is a must! We really must help this