Bushfire recovery news

Recent rains have sig­nalled the end of a record-break­ing year of pre­scribed burns for South Aus­tralia with The Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice (NPWS) suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ing 49 pre­scribed burns this autumn, mak­ing it a record 96 for the year and a 53 per cent increase from the ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀ season.

South Aus­tralia will be bet­ter pre­pared to sup­port the preser­va­tion and re-estab­lish­ment of the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment dur­ing and fol­low­ing bush­fires with a new frame­work released by the Wildlife and Habi­tat Bush­fire Recov­ery Taskforce.

The Kan­ga­roo Island Wilder­ness Trail (KIWT) will reopen for walk­ers from 1 Decem­ber for the first time since last summer’s dev­as­tat­ing bushfires.

South Australia’s pre­scribed burn pro­gram has received a $37 mil­lion injec­tion over five years as part of the State Government’s $97.5 mil­lion response to the Keel­ty Review into last summer’s dev­as­tat­ing bushfires.

Almost $450,000 in com­mu­ni­ty dona­tions will be grant­ed to 20 Wildlife Recov­ery Fund recip­i­ents to help wildlife and native flo­ra recov­er from last summer’s dev­as­tat­ing bushfires.