More than 60,000 koalas were impacted by the devastating bushfires that swept across the country last summer, with total numbers of wildlife affected estimated to be 3 billion.
A new report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) revealed that 143 million mammals were killed or lost their habitat last summer.
Chief executive of WWF Australia, Dermot O’Gorman, said that it is hard to think of an event in living memory that has caused this much impact on wildlife and nature.