It’s an ecological disaster unprecedented in the nation’s history. Unique and endemic to the continent, is mind-boggling. Already, the toll on animals and plants, many of which are evolutionarily More than 2,200 homes have gone up in flames andĢ9 people have been killed, and there are still two months of bushfire season
Watts/Alamy Stock Photoġ2, months of wildfires had burned nearly 11 million hectares - an area larger The Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo is an endangered subspecies of parrot that may struggle to survive in the charred wasteland it once called home (a male, right, and female shown during better times). The population has been killed, the subspecies could end up back on theĬritically endangered list, she says. Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, who has studied and worked to protect the birds for the last four years. Says Daniella Teixeira, a conservation biologist at the University of Work have gone up in smoke and “it’s a big step backwards for the recovery team,” Tree species in its habitat, the drooping she oak. It’s unclear how many glossy black cockatoos ( Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus) survived.įor those that escaped the flames, food may be scarce it eats the seeds of single The coast of the state of South Australia, destroying the habitat of the great Increased from 150 to 400, and its status was downgraded from critically endangeredĪcross nearly 50 percent of Kangaroo Island, a 4,400-square-kilometer isle off
Thanks to a recovery program that began in 1995, its wild population Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo was one of Australia’s conservation
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