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“Hope in a burned plantation”

Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This haunting image of an eastern grey kangaroo and her joey captures the plight of Australian animals in the wake of devastating bushfires that ravaged parts of New South Wales and Victoria in 2020. Jo-Anne McArthur of Canada took this photo at a burned eucalyptus plantation, which she did to document the effects of the fires on wildlife.