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Caption: KANGAROO ISLAND FIRE RECOVERY
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Caption: SUMMER 2019 - 2020 BUSHFIRES Fire is an ever-present part of the ecology of much of Australia. The scale of fires was unprecedented and especially so on Kangaroo Island. These images document the ecological resilience and tell the story of nature’s recovery.
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Caption: The landscape laid bare reveals a stark beauty. It shows the underlying geology previously masked by thick vegetation.
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Caption: The window to see this is closing fast as the plants are rapidly returning.
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Caption: Within days, dormant buds burst to life on Eucalypts, returning energy to the trees and providing food for insects and herbivorous animals
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Caption: Within weeks, flower spikes emerged on the Grasstrees
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Caption: These provide a critical food source for nectar-feeding insects, birds and animals across the landscape
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Caption: Fire-dependant plants like Banksias have dropped countless seeds into deep ash beds
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Caption: ...resulting in enormous numbers of new plants germinating across the Island
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Caption: After a few months, ancient Sugar gums develop a lush cover of leaves up their trunks
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Caption: Echidnas, goannas, kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, sooty dunnarts, heath rats and many birds have been observed with the fire ground
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Caption: Beyond any reasonable expectation, Sooty Dunnarts (tiny marsupial carnivores) survived in areas severely burned. This shows the camera lines deployed to assess wildlife survival
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Caption: Glossy black-cockatoos survived the fires by flying to unburned areas
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Caption: Deep in Flinders Chase National Park, endangered Cape Barren geese are nesting in their usual spots
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Caption: WANT TO LEARN MORE We continue to document the recovery and enjoy seeing the resilience of nature which provides plenty of opportunities for rich, positive stories. #lovewhereyoulivesa
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