Woman risks her life to save koala from wildfire in Australia

A video went viral in which an absolute hero can be seen risking her life to save a Koala from a raging bushfire near Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. Koalas are an iconic Aussie animal but se bushfires have devastated local koala population, but this brave ly has taken it upon herself to ensure that region does t lose one more.

Koala injured from burns

In foot, koala can be clearly seen injured from burns to its body, stumbling across ro in Long Flat, west of Port Macquarie and back into bushland under threat. A local of South Wales called Toni immediately leapt to animal's rescue and rushed into hazardous fire zone in order to save helpless animal. She even took off her top in a bid to shield animal while exposing her own skin to flames. She doused  koala in water before covering it up in an attempt to shield it and n provides it with some water to drink.

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Toni n took injured animal to Port Macquarie Koala Hospital - which is alrey treating more than a dozen animals.
While Toni's quick thinking in this case undoubtedly saved life of  animal, unfortunatey same can t be said for hundreds of koalas that have been incinerated by relentless bushfires. According to Koala Conservation Australia president Sue Ashton, fires are of such a high intensity that most of animals have been incinerated. She furr ded that it was like a cremation like re were so signs of animals left. While estimates vary at moment but experts reckon re are as many as 350 de koalas in area. teams sent into an area where fire danger is low to assess situation and have been aided by Bear Koala Detection Dog.

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This particular dog has been trained to detect koalas and y hope that Bear's heightened senses will be able to find any Koalas that man to live through Infer.

Koala Lewis

Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, where Toni took Koala she rescued, have named koala Lewis and y estimate that he is around 14 years old. Two fundraisers have been set up to see how much money as possible go towards helping one of Australia's most legendary animals. first has a goal of $1 million and hopes to set up a new breeding facility to get this koala community back on its feet. second campaign has alrey mand to rack up an impressive $860,000 in donations since it started.