NBC NEWYORK – A koala hospital in Australia posted a somber update on its Facebook page on Tuesday — that the beloved koala rescued from a bushfire last week has died. The koala, named Ellenborough Lewis, was pulled from a tree surrounded by fire by a shirtless woman in a now-viral video.
“We recently posted that ‘burn injuries can get worse before they get better,” Port Macquarie Koala Hospital posted to Facebook. “In Ellenborough Lewis’s case, the burns did get worse, and unfortunately would not have gotten better. The Koala Hospital’s number one goal is animal welfare, so it was on those grounds that this decision was made.”
A koala hospital in Australia posted a somber update on its Facebook page on Tuesday — that the beloved koala rescued from a bushfire last week has died. The koala, named Ellenborough Lewis, was pulled from a tree surrounded by fire by a shirtless woman in a now-viral video.
Today we made the decision to put Ellenborough Lewis to sleep. We placed him under general anaesthesia this morning to…
Posted by Koala Hospital Port Macquarie on Monday, November 25, 2019