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There are whole streams whose fish have died. This is a side effect of the brush fires. The land is a charred mess covered in ash. Where the rains have come, the ash and fire debris have washed into the rivers. The water becomes a thick sludge and the oxygen levels drop drastically. Fish are unable to breath and they die. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j...into-river

This is just another consequence of the ongoing disaster. It will take years for the land to recover. It  is unclear if the animals will ever recover. Now the rivers are effected. It will take a long time for the rivers to run cleanly. There may be few if any fish who survive this.
It will take generations for their numbers to be restored, if it is even possible.

This is a disaster that just keeps compounding. What else could go wrong. 

What could go wrong is our failure to take climate change seriously. Then this level of disaster will just keep happening, in Australia and in other places.
This is very sad and awful. But I think we will see many effects from those bush fires. I don't think they have ever been as bad.
It is devastating for a very wide area and many many creatures.
I think this is the worst ecological disaster the world has ever seen. The vegetation is gone. The animals are gone. Now the fish are gone. I understand that the insects are gone. It is going to take a lot of years for the land to recover. There will be recovery, but it might be a very different kind of land. It will certainly take a lot of time for the land to heal. If even one flower blooms in the remains of the land it will be a beautiful sign of hope. I don't know if any seeds survived that can germinate. Sadsmiley