As record-breaking fires rage across southeastern Australia, authorities say they’re rounding up dozens of suspects whom, they claim, started at least 100 fires that eventually led to the “brushfire crisis” that has killed at least 25 people and thousands of animals and may continue to burn for “months.”
“The number of cattle and sheep killed is still being tallied, but the losses are expected to be enormous,” according to National Public Radio. “And the death toll among wild animals is even worse. An ecologist at Sydney University estimates that nearly half a billion animals perished in the state of New South Wales alone.”
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