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  • BBC Wildlife Magazine

    MARK CARWARDINE

    Mar 12, 2020 2 minutes

    A staggering one billion animals have been killed in Australia’s wildfires. At least, that’s what recent headlines claim. But is it true? Or, like so many ‘statistics’, has the number been plucked out of thin air, repeated, then repeated again and again, until it becomes ‘fact’.

    Fifa, for example, claims that more than 3.5 billion people watched at least some of the 2018

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