Amber Lilly (BScA’99, MSc’06) moved to Australia in 2018 and now works with a non-profit organization that’s caring for koalas that have been injured during the country’s worst fire season on record.

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A Truro, N.S., woman who’s caring for badly burned koalas in Australia says nursing the iconic creatures back to health is just one of the challenges rescuers face. An estimated 30 percent of the marsupials’ habitat has been destroyed by raging bush fires during the country’s worst fire season on record.

Amber Lilly, who works with Port Stephens Koalas in New South Wales, worries the koalas she’s helping won’t have a home to return to.

“Because the areas that are burning are known as … very successful koala breeding grounds, to know that they’re gone and that we’ve lost up to a third of the koala population, is pretty bad,” Lilly told CBC’s Mainstreet.

Read the full story, “What a Truro woman is doing to help badly burned koalas in Australia” on cbc.ca.