The pilot of a helicopter flying over the Bribie island, near Brisbane, found on the coastline several dozen dead kangaroos. They fled from the fire that started on the island, after the preventive burning of the forest zone went out of control.
It is far from the first time that preventive burning of bush areas in order to protect residential buildings from bushfires is getting out of control. How many times such burning created a heavy smoke screen over Sydney and other major cities. People suffered, especially the elderly and those with respiratory illnesses.
This time, people and houses on Bribie Island were left safe, but about 40 kangaroos died. The reason for this has become customary for firefighters, an "economical" but clearly unreasonable method. Kangaroos died and people did it. Here you cannot blame natural disasters. Рoor animals tried to escape, fled from fire to water and, apparently breathing smoke, died on the shore.
Is it time to think. And if you need to separate residential buildings from dangerous forest areas, buy large bulldozers and clear the necessary corridors from trees and shrubs. And prohibit preventive burning, make it illegal, along with the deliberate arson.
