With the fires in Australia getting dangerously close to one coastal town in Southeast Australia, Chad Staples, the zoo director, worked tirelessly with the zoo’s staff to save the animals there from certain death.
Chad Staples worked at the Mogo Wildlife park. This park is a local zoo with a particularly large private collection of exotic animals, one of the largest, in fact.
Evacuation orders were quickly given and handed out as the flames burned dangerously close to the zoo. The workers at the zoo refused to flee and leave the remaining animals to their destiny.
The staff worked tirelessly to save the orangutans and lions and were able to move them to parts of the park that would be safest from the blaze.
But their work was not done. There were still a tiger, some monkeys, and a few red pandas that needed a place to shelter them from the fires.
What happened next was incredible. Chad and his staff started taking the animals with them to their houses. They turned their houses into refugee camps for the wildlife, and their incredible work allowed them to save 200 animals that would’ve otherwise been burned to death!
All the animals that took refuge in Chad’s house and the houses of the staff members were safe during the inferno and they all survived unharmed.
No one is hurt, not a single animal
Staples
Staples himself took home a number of monkeys and a few pandas, while one of the staff members took home the tiger and kept it in their backyard.
“A couple of hours ago, it felt like Armageddon here,It was black as midnight, with tinges of red. It was like we were fighting fires in the darkness.”
Staples told ABC.
He added that his staff and all the volunteers that were there defended the place like it was their family.
The raging fires in Australia have already killed more than 500 MILLION animals and there is not yet an end in sight. But you can still help! Find out how to help Australia and the wildlife there here.
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