Two years after being ravaged by Australia’s record bushfires, Kangaroo Island’s endangered wildlife are finally starting to bounce back thanks to a fenced safe haven. The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 were the worst in Kangaroo Island’s history, destroying almost half of its vegetation and threatening the survival of species such as the mouse-like dunnart. Exactly two years after destructive fires started by lightning strikes first began on the island of the coast of South Australia, a survey has revealed threatened wildlife populations are slowly recovering following a refuge project’s construction. An initial 13.6-hectare area was fenced off in a whirlwind six weeks to protect wildlife from predators, namely feral cats, straight after the devastating fires removed their protective habitat cover. The area, which is jointly managed by Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) and Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife (KI LfW), now spans almost 370 hectares of habitat for endangered species, …