🔥 The Kangaroo Island dunnart lives only on Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. In 2019–2020, catastrophic bushfires swept across the island, burning over 90% of the dunnart’s habitat. The species was feared extinct, but a few were found to have survived — perhaps just 50–100 individuals.
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