MARCH 30 2020 - 3:01PM
Belinda Willis
The rare Kangaroo Island dunnart has been captured on wildlife cameras by the non-governmental organisation Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife.
Signs that rare bird and marsupial colonies are surviving the aftermath of horrific bushfires are emerging with the help of sensor cameras, water pumps and specialist ecologists.
The rare Kangaroo Island dunnart has been captured on wildlife cameras by the non-governmental organisation Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife.
Sightings of tiny dunnarts using motion-sensing cameras are particularly heartening after fears habitat destruction would decimate the threatened nocturnal marsupials already only numbering between 300 and 500.
Fires burned about 200,000 hectares of land, almost half the island, and especially the protected areas in which dunnarts are found.
South Australia's chief ecologist at the Department for Environment and Water Dr Dan Rogers said specialist advice from some of the world's leading experts in the rare species was helping.
"Prof Chris Dickman, he knows more about dunnarts generally than anyone else in the world, he was on the phone to us talking us through the biggest risk during the fire and immediately after," Dr Rogers said.
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