Australia is dropping thousands of veggies from helicopters for hungry animals escaping bushfires

The brush-tailed rock-wallabies are marsupials -- like kangaroos -- who "live on rocky escarpments, granite outcrops and cliffs," according to Australia's Department of Environment and Energy website. Of the 15 species in Australia, most have disappeared and are now considered threatened, the website says. The species is also considered endangered in New South Wales. Large swaths of Australia have burned in the blazes that began months before the official fire season started. Nearly half a billion animals have been impacted by the fires in NSW alone, with millions potentially dead, according to ecologists at the University of Sydney. That figure includes birds, reptiles, and mammals, except bats. It also excludes insects and frogs -- meaning the true number is likely much higher.

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