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Six­teen more koalas have been translo­cat­ed from bush­fire-rav­aged Kan­ga­roo Island and will be housed at Cle­land Wildlife Park to add to the recent­ly estab­lished dis­ease-free insur­ance population.

The Wildlife Recov­ery Fund, Wildlife and Habi­tat Recov­ery Task­force and food drops are the first of many recov­ery actions under­way to sup­port South Aus­tralian wildlife affect­ed by the bushfires.

The impact on koalas of the bush­fires on Kan­ga­roo Island has been sig­nif­i­cant, but there is no dan­ger to the sur­vival of their pop­u­la­tion on the island.

Fer­al pigs on Kan­ga­roo Island will be tar­get­ed in a new oper­a­tion to reduce their num­bers and pre­vent them from hin­der­ing the island’s envi­ron­men­tal recovery.

Drops of food and water will soon start to help save the vul­ner­a­ble and starv­ing wildlife on Kan­ga­roo Island now that the bush­fire is contained.