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Koalas recover from Australian blaze on Kangaroo Island

Across much of Australia, volunteers and professionals are fighting to contain widespread blazes, with many also taking risks to save wildlife being killed by the millions. Kangaroo Island, a popular tourist destination and wildlife park off Australia’s southeast coast, has been home to some of the worst damage to the nation’s biodiversity. Fires have overrun nearly half of the 1,700-square mile island, and rescuers including Mitchell have been going tree to tree, trying to save what they can. The monster fire began when two small fires grew moderately out of lightning strikes on Dec. 20 and were on their way to being controlled when a third lightning strike on Dec. 30 created a seemingly unstoppable blaze. Within five days, it consumed about a third of the island and, according to Mitchell, about 80% of the koala’s island habitat. Read more about this story at The Oregonian/Oregonlive: https://www.oregonlive.com/environmen...