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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsForest Destroyed By Loggers, Animal's Heartbreak After Losing Home
The little guy wandered back to his home in New South Wales, Australia last week only to find it had been cut down and chipped by logging operations. A volunteer with WIRES, a rescue operation licensed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, said the koala had been sitting on top of the wood pile for over an hour looking confused.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/koala-photo-loggers-australia_n_3179029.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
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Forest Destroyed By Loggers, Animal's Heartbreak After Losing Home (Original Post)
DainBramaged
Jul 2013
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AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)1. Words fail.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)2. Poor little guy
People make me
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)3. Goddammit.
diane in sf
(3,913 posts)4. His home and his family were probably both destroyed.
RC
(25,592 posts)5. Animals are more intelligent than we give them credit for.
But because they can't speak or read English, or some other major language, we think they are dumb.
Auggie
(31,173 posts)6. Horrible. And to think, there are many, many other photos just like this ...
like, a polar bear wondering where all the ice went.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)7. DB...There's so much HeartBreak out there these days for our Animal Population...
and our Own Souls dealing that this photo sort of speaks it all:
Little fellow out there alone after Devastation.
I see this for many of us..."Little Fellows" ...Out there ALONE...after the Devastation.
K&R! so sad.....and so timely.