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their cigarettes not only polluted the air but
The Chinese government is trying very
burned the forest. Therefore, the fire not on ly
hard to create the vaccine. Other countries
impacted humans; it also impacted animals.
like Japan, the United States and Canada
The Australian fires weren’t only tragic for
donated a lot of money and resources. It is
locals but it was horrible for the animals. Too
useful to stay clean and stop eating exot ic
many animals died. The Australian
animals. Doing these things can help
government estimated that 30% of koa las
prevent virus outbreaks in the future.
AUSTRALIAN were killed by the fires. This is terrible news
FOREST FIRE because koalas are an endangered species.

Another national treasure is the kangaroos ,

which also suffered a huge decline in its
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population. Many Australians came to the aid
Recently, Australia has extremely hot
of these animals by rescuing them.
temperatures, which affects its
Fortunately, the fires were extinguished by
environment. In December 2019, Australia
the rain, providing much-needed relief.
had a bushfire in the forest, which killed
Overall, Australians and their wildlife
many innocent people and animals. In fact,
welcomed the rain.
the Australian fires have unique causes,
When the dark clouds appeared, the rain
consequences and a natural solution .
began to pour, and the fires slowly
People said that “the fire started in
disappeared from the landscape. The
various ways: some by lightning, som e by
weeklong rain soaked the ground and the
human actions, including arson.” During
forest fires were a thing of the past.
the Australian summers, the temperature
Unfortunately, the same situation oc curred
can reach up to 53 degrees celsius which
this year. This shows that the Australian
makes the soil extremely dry. Also, the
government needs to do more to prot ect
humidity is quite low, around 30%, which
nature by taking climate change seriou sly.
makes fire a high risk occurrence. These
Otherwise, the same thing will happen again
conditions were worsened by lightning
in 2021.
strikes so fire kept spreading and burning

the forest, and many people lost their lives
and property. Lastly, human carelessness

caused by people smoking and discarding

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