Signs urge visitors and staff to keep quiet to allow the traumatised koalas the best chance of recovery. Most of the animals have received horrific burns because of the wildfires raging across Australia. (Image: Getty)At the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital in New South Wales, 300 miles north of Sydney, staff are desperately trying to save the koala population. It read: “Burns; burns; burns.”(Image: Koala Hospital)Under “cause of problems” the list read: “Bushfire; bushfire; bushfire.”British volunteer Susan McInnes told of her pride in the facility’s work. Ministers were so concerned they even flew up to Port Macquarie to see the hospital’s work as it fights for the stricken koalas.

Source: Daily Mirror January 16, 2020 20:15 UTC