Australian officials are air-dropping carrots to feed the animals affected by the brushfires.
Thousands of kilograms of vegetables, namely carrots and sweet potatoes, are being dropped over New South Wales to feed the wildlife affected by theMatt Kean, the minister for Energy and Environment for New South Wales, is calling it “Operation Rock Wallaby,” and shared a photo of a member of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service dropping buckets of carrots from a helicopter over the endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby colonies below.
“The provision of supplementary food is one of the key strategies we are deploying to promote the survival and recovery of endangered species like the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby,” Kean said , while adding that they’ll keep dropping food until “sufficient natural food resources and water [return].”
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