Australia's Kangaroo Island is a haven for rare wildlife. A third of it has burned in bushfires, NASA images show:
The extent of fire damage to Kangaroo Island in the state of South Australia was captured by NASA's Terra satellite on Tuesday. The devastation can be clearly seen, with brown burn scars and active fires where lush greenery once stood. NASA estimates that 155,000 hectares of the island has been consumed by fires, calling it"an ecological tragedy".Lying off Australia's southern coast, Kangaroo Island is famous for its pristine wilderness.
Fires threaten koalas in New South Wales 02:22Ecologists estimate that about 25,000 koalas on Kangaroo Island have died in the fires, accounting for half of the island's population of the marsupials, according to NASA. The island was once considered a safe haven for koalas because the population there was free from chlamydia -- a disease that can cause blindness, infertility and death that is prevalent among koalas on the mainland.
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