By Gabriela Baron

True to the legacy left behind by their legendary patriarch Steve Irwin, the Irwin family has reportedly saved and treated over 90,000 animals, including hundreds of grey-headed flying foxes, from Australia’s ongoing wildfires.

Steve’s daughter Bindi led the family in continuing her father’s legacy of rescuing and conserving wildlife and has given sanctuary to the displaced animals at the family zoo since the fires broke out in September.

“Ollie”, an orphaned platypus, was the 90,000th patient at the Wildlife Hospital.

Robert, Bindi’s brother, assured on Instagram that “Ollie” has been receiving round the clock care until “he can be released back to the wild.”

Bindi also shared a picture of herself posing in front of a photo of her father and grandmother, both holding a crocodile.

“With so many devastating fires within Australia, my heart breaks for the people and wildlife who have lost so much,”

She also added that the family’s wildlife hospital is “busier than ever”, but promised that all its rescues are being taken care of until they are big enough to go home and no longer threatened from fire.

The family’s wildlife hospital takes in animals from all over Australia.

According to the University of Sydney, over 480 million animals, birds, and reptiles have been lost due to the wildfires that have been raging Australia since September.

In 2019, Brandi shared that her family opened a sea turtle rehabilitation center, sea snake ward, and about to complete a new bird recovery area.

Wildlife expert Steve Irwin died in 2006 after being stung by a stingray in a marine accident on Australia’s north coast.