Bushfire recovery news
Up to $52 million of works have started to rebuild and rejuvenate Kangaroo Island’s nature-based tourism in parks, creating hundreds of much-needed jobs following the summer’s bushfires and impacts from coronavirus.
A Kangaroo Island koala count using drones, infrared cameras and artificial intelligence is underway to better understand the remaining population following the summer bushfires.
Landholders, community groups and researchers can now apply for bushfire recovery grants of up to $50,000 to help re-establish native habitat and support threatened and vulnerable native animals in South Australia.
You can support South Australia’s bushfire recovery effort from home, on your mobile or laptop, by helping to identify wildlife captured on-camera in unburnt patches of Kangaroo Island’s parks.
Environmental recovery after the summer’s bushfires has been given a boost with the appointment of members for the Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Taskforce.