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Days of sustained rain has led to concerns for ground-dwelling animals, such as wombats and echidnas, which can become trapped in their habitat by flood waters. Coastal swells have also caused marine species to be swept off course, with baby sea turtles found washed ashore in places including Sydney’s Bronte beach. Sustained rain and floods can be devastating for wildlife but the extent to which the disaster in New South Wales has affected native species won’t become clear until the weather eases and water begins to recede.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/24/fears-for-echidnas-and-wombats-trapped-underground-by-nsw-floods

Echidnas are doing fine, we do not seem to bother them at all! But flooding might drown quite a few.

Two species of echidnas exist.

Anyone know the status of wombats? Urban sprawl has to hurt their numbers.

A few nights ago watching Melbourne channel 7 news... about those awful floods... but some filming actually made my day when I saw it... go about 2 mins and 13 seconds and see them well behaved rescued chooks on a paddle board/canoe ...

https://youtu.be/1FOKtB5yUIQ