Animal species may have been eliminated completely after Australian bushfires
The Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo is a"sub-species" which was completely confined to the island.
But she said other habitat areas for the glossy black cockatoo had escaped the inferno and could be providing"some reprieve for them". "They're really specialised and have a very low reproductive rate — about one chick a year if they're lucky," she said.
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