It feels oddly long ago for many of us, but the devastating bushfires that ravaged much of Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 have only officially been out for about a month.
Nonetheless, we can recall hearing about the their effects as they raged and with at least 34 human lives and over a billion animal ones claimed in the disaster, the effects were indeed harrowing to hear about.
But while there is obviously much to worry about in the world at large right now, the stories of dread that we heard in those troubling months can now make way for some tales of hope.
And one of them concerns the koalas that narrowly escaped the fires.