It must seem like a gift from the heavens for hungry and parched wallaby colonies.
The government of New South Wales, Australia is air-dropping carrots and sweet potatoes to feed animals who survived the bushfires only to find themselves without food and water.
Matt Kean, Minister for Energy and Environment for NSW, tweeted images of “Operation Rock Wallaby.”
Thousands of kilograms of food — dropped in a single day — is now feeding animals that may have survived the fire, but are now finding their food supplies destroyed.
Water is also being brought in, according to the state.
Operation Rock Wallaby 🦘- #NPWS staff today dropped thousands of kgs of food (Mostly sweet potato and carrots) for our Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby colonies across NSW 🥕🥕 #bushfires pic.twitter.com/ZBN0MSLZei
— Matt Kean MP (@Matt_KeanMP) January 11, 2020
“One happy customer,” Keen wrote.
One happy customer 🦘🥕🥕🥕🥕#operationrockwallaby #AustralianFires pic.twitter.com/wtzMgeaX6D
— Matt Kean MP (@Matt_KeanMP) January 11, 2020
It’s part of an ongoing effort to help the species.
Providing food for fire impacted endangered wallaby colonies #nswparks #savingourspecies @nswdpi https://t.co/Ddrx3PnY2a
— DPIE Environment, Energy and Science (@nswenviromedia) January 12, 2020
And others.
This will also feed swamp wallabies, possums and wombats. Great to see the #rockwallaby taking its rightful place as an umbrella species. https://t.co/w9XYexwlo1
— Guy Ballard (@DingoResearch) January 12, 2020
#drought took their water and #bushfire took their food so our team, based @UniNewEngland have been providing both to some key #rockwallaby colonies (with permission) for nearly 2 months now. Listen to the happy chomping! pic.twitter.com/bfHkyWPCZj
— Guy Ballard (@DingoResearch) January 8, 2020
But as Kean points out — this may not be a one-off effort.
New research from NAS confirms previous models of global warming.
“The results of this study of past climate models bolster scientists’ confidence that both they as well as today’s more advanced climate models are skillfully projecting global warming,” said study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York. “This research could help resolve public confusion around the performance of past climate modeling efforts.”
#NASA Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet https://t.co/sjnTWuA5T9
— Matt Kean MP (@Matt_KeanMP) January 11, 2020
Photos Matt Kean/Twitter
