Heavy downpours in recent days have flooded vast inland tracts of Queensland state, a farming region home to some of the country's largest cattle ranches. More than 16,000 livestock are missing or dead, state authorities have said, while hundreds of kilometres of fencing has been ruined. Queensland authorities used helicopters to drop bales of fodder near the surviving herds. More than 100,000 cattle, sheep, goats and horses died in floods that swept outback Queensland in March and April last year. Outback Queensland is one of the nation's biggest cattle fattening grounds.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha January 06, 2026 03:50 UTC