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'Predator-free' fence project praised for restoring Kangaroo Island's native wildlife
The fence was designed to keep feral animals such as cats out of the area. (Supplied: Australian Wildlife Conservancy)
Populations of endangered animals on Kangaroo Island have increased by 90 to 100 per cent in five years.
The success of the program has surprised ecologists, who feared the impacts of the 2019-20 bushfires.
A First Nations man says he wants to see more collaboration with conservationists to help restore the land.
Vulnerable species on Kangaroo Island are bouncing back thanks to a 380-hectare "predator-free" enclosure erected by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.
It has been five years since the Western River Refuge was enclosed by a cat-proof fence.
Endangered Species Are Bouncing Back to 90% on Kangaroo Island Thanks to Predator-Proof Fence
On Australia’s Kangaroo Island, cat-proof fencing is protecting native species from predation following a devastating wildfire and allowing them to recover in numbers that are shocking biologists.
The third-largest island controlled by Australia, Kangaroo Island saw a large fire burn through much of its scrub habitat in 2020, and conservationists knew this would leave native animals extremely vulnerable to attack from feral cats.
As soon as a week after the fires receded, employees of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy got to work surveying the landscape to see how feasible it would be to build a fence around the burned areas.
Their work immediately saw them come into contact with the impact of the cats on the native Kangaroo Island dunnart, a mouse-sized marsupial with no natural defense against them.
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Wave of algal bloom flare-ups in Yorke Peninsula and KI – News
SA’s leading algal bloom scientist gives his take as dramatic new footage emerges of the algal bloom impacting beaches on the Yorke Peninsula.
SARDI executive director Professor Mike Steer said the state government was actively monitoring increased algal bloom activity on the Yorke Peninsula and Kangaroo Island regions but he remained “cautiously optimistic” about its lessening impact.
“It’s important that we maintain monitoring and surveillance through summer and into autumn to make sure that we’re on top of it,” Steer told InDaily on Wednesday.
“But the other thing we can say is that, if you compare the data now to where we were a few months ago, it has significantly reduced, which is some form of positive, but we just need to be careful in our interpretation.”
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