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How Australia’s island of the animals recovered to the bush fires

How Australia’s island of the animals recovered to the bush fires

Senge heat was hung over Kangaroo Island in December 2019. It gets an unusually hot summer for the island that only separates the South Pole Army from the Anlyldis. When lightning strikes initially broke one of the north and north-east quality of the island of Enszunden on December 20, 2019. Ten days later, the flames of the flinders of Flinder Chase National Park build. Voles over several soft turfs and over 210,000 Hectar Land, almost half of the island, should be destroyed. Wades, farms and houses went up in flames, tens of nutap animals and two people died. Of the estimated 50,000 Koalas, two thirds were probably killed. “We had a overpopulation to Koalas at the time,” reports a ranger in the flinders-chase national park. Some be sterilized. But then the fire had come and thousands died.

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Not least because of their many animals-in addition to the koalas, there are kangaroos, antsigel, narrow-footed bags and several seal species-the island off the coast of South Australia is one of the most beautiful destinations in Australia. With her dramatic coastal landscape, a mini -hahara, dust and dreamwells lagoons, Kangaroo Island offers beautiful impressions.

Double -edged sword

But the volumes before Fün a year after the volumes decreased to only 5000 to 10,000 animals, which was once as an ART “insurance” for the survival of the animals there. Many other species also suffered enormously united and their effects. Researchers estimate that relaxation of many population will take years or decades, whereby the forced ride of recovery will depend on the help and intensifier in the future.

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07.01.2020, Australia, Kangaroo Island: Increased Koala meeting after the bush firing on Kangaroo Island on the burned earth.

07.01.2020, Australia, Kangaroo Island: Increased Koala meeting after the bush firing on Kangaroo Island on the burned earth.

And yet: five years after the devastating fire disaster on the island, there is also a lot to be pregnant. There are “sensible and encouraging items that vegetation is again,” says Julian Beaman, ecologist at the Global Ecology Lab of Flinders University in Adelaide in South Australia. They are mainly due to the fact that many Australian plant and animal species have been adapted to a fire over the years. Some plant species even require BEE to germinate, others have developed Sosch so that they are reasonably tolerant against Hal fire as long as the fire burns too hot.

Unexpected bright spots

A visit to Kangaroo Island confirms that a big one of the vegetation has now been decayed, with some of the groffs of eucalyptus trees with their charred tribes and branches and branches and might and might and knew apocalytic and branches and might and knewer and might and apocalytic and demic. tercha branches) Ahsten and yet the undergrowth is neither tight and offers animals protection and food and also the ISTSIS destroyed by the fires. A new information center on the flinders of the CHASE National Park in the park in the park, visitors and visucers of the founded rock formation remarkable stones and levels close close close to the aristocratic admirals on new, wheelchair ranges.

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Despite “There are some areas in which species that have been nicking more for decades, they were slumbering in the seed bench and only waiting for the nichest fire. It is also noteworthy that, in the months after the fire disaster, all Wilde -Schwei, the island “dies a huge performance”, Minte Beaman. It was only due to the quick repetition after. The brand was reached. And although data on the current coal decline are just prepared, Erse would be aware of “that coalapopulation in some bidies is constantly, the same in areas, mezgen.

Kangaroo Island, the third largest island of Australia, is known for her large guidance, a wild animal, of course also the eponymous kangaroos.

Kangaroo Island, the third largest island of Australia, is known for her large guidance, a wild animal, of course also the eponymous kangaroos.

Bed hns from all sides

In fact, the bag bears need a positive news: If the devastating fire on Kangaroo Island, the spoilage of the Koalas were, there are far more factors on Australian mainland. In the populated state in the east of the country, the infrastructure projects destroy the animals of the animals until up to one kilo of eucalyptus leaves a day and sleep for up to 22 hours. Dogs and road traffic also threaten die. The so-called chlamydia infection is to be the tree remuneration, the disease blind and become unfantized. For some years now, the consequences of the climate sand have been making the life of the Koalas more difficult. Extreme temperatures and long -lasting droughts make the eucalyptus that koalas eat, drier and harder.

The Koala is therefore now considered to be hidden in the Queensland and New South Wales. To the British colonization, ten million still populated the continent, estimates Australia’s Environmental authority The Australia -wide coal apopulation is now almost 215,000 to a maximum of 462,000 animals (as of 2024), some animal welfare organization even assumes fewer animals.

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Thanks to the commitment of researchers and some sponsorships, Nick recently and on Kangaroo Island, a number of initiative and program are launched with words to help the animals of the animals. Beaman should be hated himself. Some lute would argue that Koalas was originally nicked on Kangaroo Island, but the fact is that ‘the greatest bidding Chlamydi-Freie population is, “says Beaman. That makes them so gently for art.