For months on end, Australia was ravaged by devastating bush fires that spared nothing and no one. The fires on the coast of New South Wales claimed 34 human lives and countless animal lives. Millions of hectares of vegetation and thousands of homes were destroyed.
The fires started in September 2019 and only in January of 2020 was the biggest fire finally contained. In February the last of it finally came to an end after the country received heavy rains and only recently, rescued animals were able to be released back into the wild.
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All is not lost, though. As it does, nature is slowly but surely starting to recover and reclaim what was lost. Photographers took to social media to share encouraging pictures of trees sprouting new green leaves and patches of green resurfacing through soot and ash.
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Also read: Australian shipwreck turns into ‘floating forest’
Image: Cyn Bodycote
