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When flames engulfed the Australian countryside last summer, Thelma Johnson was grateful the winds didn’t send the fires her way. She helped found the Southern Highlands Koala Sanctuary, located in Canyonleigh, New South Wales, which was spared by the monstrous bushfires that affected more than 12 million acres in the state.

The wild koalas that roam the sanctuary’s 1,413 acres will play a critical role in helping to restore the species’ numbers after more than a billion animals perished in the blazes. The extreme bushfires are but one manifestation of what the climate crisis will mean for the continent’s unique wildlife and ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. But it’s not the only climate risk. There’s also drought, which has hit the sanctuary hard.

-Yessenia Funes

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