Russia wildfires: Nesting stork camera captures devastation of spreading blaze

A surveillance camera overlooking an endangered oriental white stork nest in Russian Far East captured an apocalyptic scene of a wildfire spreading in a field on April 28. The wildfire went by without doing any harm to the birds. The camera was installed at a power pylon as a part of World Wildlife Fund Russia project to monitor the stork family online. At least 49 wildfires are burning throughout Russia now, with the combined blaze ranging over than 72,000 acres, the Russian Federal Forestry Agency said
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