Two years after almost half the island's vegetation was ravaged by bushfires, the wildlife on South Australia's Kangaroo Island are finally rebounding! 9News
The population of smaller mammals and native frogs on the island has been found to be slowing growing, according to research by Australian Wildlife Conservancy and Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife this month.
"By some estimates, only 500 Kangaroo Island Dunnarts were there even before the fires impacted 95 per cent of their habitat." However, research in December found the mammals at multiple sites across the island, showing the animals were dispersing throughout the regenerating vegetation."It is early days, but all signs are looking really good."AWC acted quickly to protect species suffering on the island, particularly the Kangaroo Island Dunnart immediately after the fires.
In a record six weeks, the Australian Army and volunteers helped erect a temporary predator-proof fenced area.In February this year the area was transformed into the previously planned formalised establishment, the Western River Refuge, which designates over 369 hectares of critical habitat to threatened species with the protection of an 8.8-kilometre feral predator-proof fence.
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