Bushfire recovery news
South Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are calling for volunteers to help identify endangered animals captured in images taken from recovering Cherry Gardens bushland using motion sensing cameras.
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.