Published 14:50 IST, January 17th 2020

Artists use sand as canvas to honour the dead wildlife from Australian bushfires

Artists' work on sand which includes different murals, illustrations, and creations to illustrate devastating wildfires that have ripped through the nation

Reported by: Sounak Mitra
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Australian artists have used sand as canvas to highlight wildfire trdy and hour all de wildlife. y have done incredible work on sand which includes different murals, illustrations, and creations to illustrate devastating wildfires that have ripped through nation in last few months. But one among artists, have stunned people with his artwork marking all wildlife that has borne brunt of devastating bushfire crisis since September. 

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Artist pour in ir skills

Bushfires have reportedly killed more than a billion animals, ranging from insects to cattle,  kangaroo, and koalas. It resulted 'Brea A Blue Ocean'  to immortalise m pouring its skills on a beach using just sands. artist visited Geelong and South Coast beaches during raging infers and mand to create this beautiful and incredibly large picture of a koala. 
crew took some epic shots of it with a drone to show just how large it is. According to Chris Dickman, an ecologist at University of Sydney, original figure of 480 million animals was conservative and is from state of New South Wales.

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Wildfires killed half a billion animals

According to media outlet, original figure was around half a billion only from NSW region which did t include bats, frogs or invertebrates. Most of Australia was choked because of smoke from bushfires. intense smoke also choked sourn city of Melbourne and as a result disrupted build-up to next week's Australian Open tennis tournament. However, thunderstorms that accompanied rains late night on Wednesday cleared away smoke and n moved on towards fires in sourn state of Victoria.

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14:50 IST, January 17th 2020