Inside the race to protect 250 threatened species hit by bushfire | ABC News

In east Gippsland, wildlife officers from Parks Victoria and the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning have been scouring burnt land for injured wildlife.

Ecologists have calculated that at least 6 million hectares of habitat that is home to at least 250 different threatened species has now gone up in smoke. Twenty-five of these species are listed as critically endangered — in other words, on the brink of extinction in the wild.