![]() "I drove into the club yesterday and saw the sports club and it was absolutely burnt to the ground and I looked across the ground and said 'You're joking me'," Mr Nolan said. The Western Districts Football Club's sports centre, where the club's memorabilia was kept, was destroyed by the fire.īut the clubrooms, which were rated as the second-worst in South Australia in an audit done by the SANFL last year, managed to survive, according to club president Tony Nolan. He said a plan would be developed to help wildlife numbers recover. It will recover," he said.Įnvironment Minister David Speirs encouraged tourists to return to the island, with the Seal Bay Conservation Park reopening to the public, along with others near Kingscote and Penneshaw. "It is a fire-evolved environment and it will bounce back. There are also concerns for the Kangaroo Island dunnart. "Any koala then who goes back to the mainland, we would never allow that koala back to Kangaroo Island." "The Kangaroo Island population, is as far as we know, chlamydia-free, whereas the Mount Lofty Ranges populations aren't," he said. He said transporting them was a biosecurity risk. ![]() Well-meaning travellers are being warned to not remove injured koalas or other wildlife to the mainland.īrenton Grear, bushfire recovery coordinator for the Department for Environment and Water, said there had been reports of people taking koalas with them to Adelaide for treatment. "We have studies which have predicted the impact of climate change on glossy black cockatoos specifically - we know that their food is reduced during drought and breeding success is consequently reduced as well." "In terms of the future, we're concerned," she said. She said important areas of their habitat on the island's north coast had burnt, including some key nesting areas. ![]() Adelaide researchers say Kangaroo Island's koalas are chlamydia-free, and should not be taken to the mainland. ![]()
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