The Irwins are working overtime to help save the animals hurt in the Australia bushfires.
The Australia Zoo, which is home and office for Crikey! It's the Irwins stars Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin, has treated more than 90,000 animals injured in the fires raging across the continent, the family of the late Steve Irwin shared on social media. The patients at the zoo hospital have included koalas, platypuses, possums, flying foxes and bats — and the ones that have survived have been extremely fortunate, considering an estimated half billion mammals, birds and reptiles have been killed since the fires started in September.
“Proud to be one of the many who are coming together to try to affect some positive change during this incredibly difficult time,” Robert wrote on Instagram Monday. “We’re here to help where we can for wildlife and to treat the survivors. Again, my greatest thank you goes to Australia’s incredible firefighters. If there’s anyone who can band together and lend a hand in crisis, it’s Australians.”
Robert, also a photographer, has been sharing photos of many of the rescues, including Bear the baby fruit bat. Hundreds of these bats have lost their home — and were transported to the zoo, which opened in 1970, from New South Wales.
Meanwhile, Australian comedian Celeste Barber has helped raise more than $26 million — and counting — to help the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
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