Such an auspicious date.  The start of a new decade.

And yet is has begun with horrific bushfires raging in Australia ; and the devastating prospect that  a BILLION wild animals, reptiles, insects and birds – such abundant wildlife – have all perished in these infernos.

More than 25,000 koalas – gone. Already ‘vulnerable’ to extinction. Now ‘critically endangered’.Only 5 % of koalas remain.