Creature numbers dwindle after NSW fires

By Gus McCubbing
Updated June 22 2020 - 4:37pm, first published 4:34pm
NSW bushfires decimated 90 per cent of small ground-dwelling species, but more wallabies survived.
NSW bushfires decimated 90 per cent of small ground-dwelling species, but more wallabies survived.

Unable to escape the clutches of devastating summer bushfires, some native creatures such as brush-trail possums and bandicoots are feared to have been wiped out across parts of northwest NSW, a wildlife survey has found.

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