Inter Press Service: The fires which swept across 400,000 hectares of bush in the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria in February left 173 people dead and ruined more than two thousand homes. But while they razed businesses, schools and kindergartens to the ground, wildlife and their habitats were also destroyed. There is a “need to look at the impact of fires, particularly these large, intense fires, on native wildlife and ecosystems, and of course that’s in addition to the impacts on [human] life …