Bushfire recovery news

With large amounts of wildlife habi­tat burnt on Kan­ga­roo Island, the State Gov­ern­ment has tak­en the unusu­al step of relo­cat­ing 12 res­cued koalas from the island to estab­lish a dis­ease-free pop­u­la­tion at Cle­land Wildlife Park.

Fire is part of our ecol­o­gy, but the recent fires on Kan­ga­roo Island have burnt more veg­e­ta­tion than any fire on the island in almost a century.

Seal Bay – one of Kan­ga­roo Island’s pre­mier tourism des­ti­na­tions – has re-opened, after hav­ing to close due to the recent bush­fire events.

The Depart­ment for Envi­ron­ment and Water esti­mates that 75 per cent of South Australia’s endan­gered glossy black-cock­a­too pop­u­la­tion, found sole­ly on Kan­ga­roo Island, lived with­in the 210,000 hectares burned in the recent bushfires.

The Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice SA has joined forces with Nature Foun­da­tion SA to launch a spe­cial fund to re-estab­lish habi­tat for wildlife in the state’s bush­fire-rav­aged regions.