Bushfire recovery news
The State Government will establish a Wildlife and Habitat Recovery Taskforce to play a lead role in the environmental response to recent bushfires.
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.