Kangaroo Island Bushfires

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Ecologists have grave concerns for the future of unique and endangered wildlife on Kangaroo Island where bush fires have killed thousands of koalas.

Fires on the island, in South Australia, have so far burned through 155,000 hectares – about one third of the island’s entire area – with blazes concentrated in the biodiversity-rich western areas.

Concerns are greatest for the unique and endangered mouse-like marsupial the Kangaroo Island dunnart, and the glossy black-cockatoo, which have both seen extensive areas of critical habitat burned.

The island’s population of endangered glossy black-cockatoos – a unique subspecies – has been the subject of two decades of community conservation work to bring numbers from as low as 150 in the 1990s to as high as 400 in latest counts.

“A lot of the key feeding and breeding areas on the north coast [of Kangaroo Island] have been lost,” said Daniella Teixeira, a scientist researching the birds at the University of Queensland.
  1. Which two endangered species are ecologists most concerned with?
  2. The glossy black-cockatoos have grown from a population of 150 to approximately  
  3. How many hectares of Kangaroo Island have been destroyed?
  4. The preservation of species will be a huge problem because  
  5. What does the phrase "grave concerns" from the first paragraph mean?
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