incident has gone viral online and for more on australia's bushfire crisis i'm joined by the reporter joel dahl roy thanks for being here joel one lucky koala made it on to social media but there are many many more out there who weren't quite so lucky is a stray these environment minister says up to one 3rd of all koalas in one particularly hard hit region may have died in the recent fire season another estimate says that it could be around $1000.00 koalas that may have perished since this fire season began in september you've got to remember that from a very small population to begin with there's less than 100000 koalas in the wild or there's thought to be now this video was seeing here is actually not the only video thirsty koalas to emerge in recent months we've seen others and stray the ones are reaching into their pockets to try and help the koalas and online donation site has raised several $1000000.00 to try and fund drinking stations for koalas. regions now it's not guaranteed that that money will actually use for that cause all the stations could be built in time to help koalas in this par

reporter joel dahl roy he's been monitoring monitoring the news wires for some of the more ridiculous stories what have been seeing others well 1st of all merry christmas i'm hearing i have some visual presence for you of the silly season videos we're going to start off with some surfing sensors a charity event held out cocoa beach in florida attracted some $600.00. surfing santas to take pot they raised around $40000.00 for some nonprofits now look at $600.00 that seems like a lot of surface on one way vogue dot com it's a comfortable for all the other swimmers but i guess you can't complain if if it's santa you know surfing on your wave well it's not going to be comfortable in a sense anyway is it but at least it's for a good cause another thing you mentioned was the night of the radish you can have to explain that for us with a night of the radish you know the red and white fur right of what vegetable story is not a fruit of course is a root vegetable and. in mexico they have a festival every year where they cause these red stools with intricate patterns we can see a few of them he