The pale, sandy face of a dingo peers out between the blackened trunks of charred eucalyptus trees. The canid is half of a single pair that lives at the Secret Creek wildlife sanctuary at the foot of Australia’s Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Part of the sanctuary was among the 17 million hectares (42 million acres) of Australian land that were ravaged by fires in late 2019 and early 2020, killing or displacing over 3 billion native vertebrates , according to WWF. Secret Creek’s two dingoes, a female and male, might have perished too, had coal-miner-turned conservationist Trevor Evans not temporarily moved them to a Sydney zoo. Once the flames died down , Evans brough them home to the sanctuary where they are protected. But across the country, the fires have left Australia’s only native canid with less habitat and fewer prey. A man holds a possum burned in Australia’s 2019/2020 bush fires Charred trees in Australia’s Blue Mountains. Millions of acres of forest were lost in the fires that swept through the country last summer The dingo: a farmer’s foe Evans set up the sanctuary 19 years ago, after he lost his job. He had been studying environmental… Read full this story
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