The Latest Breaking News from Kangaroo Island

The beauty of Australia is beckoning many holidaymakers to explore within their own shores.Domestic tourism has spiked since 2021 and travel trends point to further increases in 2023.Holidays in our own backyard are increasingly popular thanks to the sheer size of Australia, its diversity of landscapes and wildlife, and the…

Wildfires affect large areas of the Earth’s surface and many of their effects occur at an alarming speed. The fires that consumed half of Australia’s Kangaroo Island in 2019 left a trail of animal corpses in their wake. In 2021, wildfires burned over 2.5 million acres of land in California.

Emergency services are still responding to calls for assistance across metropolitan Adelaide after yesterday's damaging winds.

A 5,000m2 garden will be a seed bank for threatened plant species on the fire-devastated Kangaroo Island and will be a lifeline for endangered South Australian flora.

When Julie Thompson went for an evening stroll during a recent family trip to Deep Creek, she had no inkling she was about to make a remarkable discovery.

The South Australian government has begun work on rebuilding key tourism infrastructure on Kangaroo Island, destroyed in the 2020 bushfires.

A new style of tourism encourages people to involve themselves in research and conservation while visiting locations, rather than just taking in the sights.

Mobile phones can be crucial during emergencies, but it was only because of a black spot that this joey was able to see daylight again, after getting stuck in an old underground water tank.

‘There are only around 500 Kangaroo Island dunnarts left in the wild’

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.

Feral cats are picking off the endangered dunnarts that weren't already ravaged by the devastating Kangaroo Island bushfires.