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Community Community Hamad Samarat, a Bin Khalifa collection P7University P16 of selected Press publishes a stories of Qatari book to encourage writers, gets a launch love of Arabic at Doha International language. Book Fair 2020. Thursday, January 16, 2020 Jumada I 21, 1441 AH Doha today: 140 - 220 SCENE OF DESPAIR: Nick Clark, a farmer at Kangaroo Island Wool, walks through an area scorched by the fires. COVER STORY Devastation Australia in flames tries to cope with an ‘animal apocalypse’. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Engage in debate with students, don’t Everything you need to know about send police to beat them up: Kabir. Parasite and its Oscar nominations. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 16, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 5am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.23am Zuhr (noon) 11.45am Asr (afternoon) 2.47pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.07pm Isha (night) 6.37pm USEFUL NUMBERS Tanhaji SYNOPSIS: Based on the life of Tanaji Malusare, a 17th- DIRECTION: Om Raut century Maharashtrian Marathi military leader. 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From the investigation of the attack to the Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 DIRECTION: Meghna Gulzar court proceedings, the medical treatment to the emotional Qatar Airways 40253374 CAST: Deepika Padukone, Vikrant Massey, Madhurjeet healing. Sarghi SYNOPSIS: The trials and triumphs of Malti, an acid THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall te Unqu uo ot Q “With the e new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Thursday, January 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY WHEN:Ongoing till July 1 school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- TIME: 6:30pm – 9pm hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Get trained by experts to be a good speaker. Theatre & Taekwondo. 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Winter Dragon Boat Festival 2020 WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: January 24 Public Speaking Classes for Adults Row, paddle, hurry up! Qatar’s largest WHERE: Sharq Capital, C-Ring Road Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 16, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Wildfire engulfs wildlife In terms of human fatalities, Australia’s blazes this year have been less severe than some previous bush fires, but the impact on wildlife this year has been far more devastating, write Joseph Serna and Susanne Rust RESCUE: Sam Mitchell rescues a koala and heads back to the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, which he is the owner/operator of Kangaroo Island. am Mitchell balanced himself biodiversity. Fires have overrun nearly on a eucalyptus branch 30 half of the 1,700-square mile island, feet above the ground as his and rescuers including Mitchell have meaty right fi st clutched a been going tree to tree, trying to save koala, which wailed with what they can. Sbreathing problems. The dark gray “There’s not much that isn’t There’s not much that marsupial batted its 3-inch black claws threatening koalas at the moment,” isn’t threatening koalas in the air helplessly, and minutes later said Mitchell, who has owned and run Mitchell crawled down. He and the the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park the at the moment animal were safely on the ground. last seven years. Across much of Australia, volunteers In terms of human fatalities, and professionals are fi ghting to Australia’s blazes this year have been — Sam Mitchell, owner of contain widespread blazes, with many less severe than some previous bush also taking risks to save wildlife being fi res, with roughly 27 people killed Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park killed by the millions. Kangaroo Island, this season compared with 75 during a popular tourist destination and the nation’s 1983 “Ash Wednesday” wildlife park off Australia’s southeast inferno. But the impact on wildlife this coast, has been home to some of year has been far more devastating. ‘ ’ the worst damage to the nation’s Scientists estimate that, so far in Thursday, January 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Australia, fires have killed from through.” hundreds of millions to more Some are calling the Australia than 1 billion native animals. fi res an animal apocalypse, a The toll illustrates that, while preview of what could happen in humans can adapt somewhat California as fi res intensify and to intensifying fires — through burn hotter, as they are expected better emergency planning, more to do under many climate change fire crews and “home hardening” scenarios. — delicate ecosystems are far That prospect concerns many fi re more vulnerable. ecologists, who long preached that “Most Australian landscapes California and other Western states are in tune with small-scale have a long fi re history, with fl ora summer fi res, but not the fi res of and fauna adapted to survive — and the proportion and intensity that even thrive after — seasonal fi res. we are observing now,” said Katja “We have a saying that pyro- Hogendoorn, a professor at the diversity begets eco-diversity,” said University of Adelaide’s school of Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist agriculture, food and wine. with the Ashland, Ore.-based Geos “These incomprehensibly Institute, who has studied forest large and devastating fires are fi re ecology extensively in the caused by a combination of lower western United States. rainfall and higher temperatures, But the recent super-hot fi res both consequences of climate in California, and the widespread change, and here to stay and wildlife deaths in Australia, have worsen, unless drastic action some scientists questioning if these is undertaken worldwide,” she unnaturally intense blazes pose a added. “As the driest and hottest threat to the conventional wisdom, continent, Australia is at the at least in Australia. forefront of this environmental Derek Lee, principal scientist disaster.” with the Wild Nature Institute Accurate numbers on animal and a researcher at Penn State losses are hard to come by as the University, said he is sceptical of disaster continues to unfold, with TREATMENT: Emma Veritay is a volunteer helping to tend to the wounds of koalas at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife the “1 billion” animals killed in some fi re offi cials saying blazes Park, where a temporary medic tent has been set up to treat the animal bushfire victims.