A koala that was saved from a New South Wales bushfire by a woman using the shirt off her back, has been put down in a koala hospital due to his extensive burns.
“Lewis” the koala was found and rescued in raging bushfires at Long Flat, near Port Macquarie.
The injured marsupial was initially taken to the Koala hospital in Port Macquarie with severe burns to large parts of his body, before hospital staff confirmed his fate today.