Australians bring koalas injured in fires to park

Devastating wildfires over recent days have undone deces of careful conservation work on Kangaroo Island and have threatened to wipe out some of island's unique fauna altoger.

At Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park residents continued to bring injured koalas and kangaroos for staff to treat m for various degrees of burns.

Experts working on island say fires have killed thousands of koalas and kangaroos, and also have raised questions about wher any members of a mouse-like marsupial species that carries its young in a pouch have survived.

Similarly, it remains unclear how many from a unique flock of glossy black-cockatoos got away from flames and wher y have a future on an island where much of ir habitat has gone up in smoke.

Located off coast of South Australia state, Kangaroo Island is about 50% larger than Rhode Island and home to 4,500 people and what was a thriving ecotourism industry.