...Jessica R. Marsh; Richard V. Glatz ABSTRACT The black summer fires of 2019–2020 burnt almost half of Kangaroo Island (KI), impacting large areas of high-quality native vegetation supporting many rare, endemic and/or undescribed invertebrate species. In the aftermath there was a need to survey...

...Peter Shaughnessy; Terry Dennis; Dave Dowie; Jane McKenzie; Rebecca McIntosh The status of the Australian sea lion Neophoca cinerea at eight sites on Kangaroo Island was assessed using criteria adopted by the National Seal Strategy Group based on numbers of pups counted between 1985 and 2005. Each...

... respectively. Annual and total yields of skins are presented for ten separate areas in the region: Bass Strait, King Island, Kangaroo Island. Western Australia, New Zealand, Bounty Islands, Auckland Islands, Antipodes Islands. Campbell Island and Macquarie island. At least 1 367 000 fur seal skins were...

...Shawn Scott; Richard Biffin ABSTRACT The Pygmy Copperhead Austrelaps labialis is South Australia’s only endemic snake, being native to the Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges and Fleurieu Peninsula; with an additional allopatric population on Kangaroo Island. Within the AMLR, it inhabits stringybark...

... significant differences in dietary composition (i) between the sexes and (ii) within each sex, between oviparous (Eyre Peninsula, Fleurieu Peninsula) and viviparous (Kangaroo Island) conspecifics. In both populations. females tended to feed primarily on large, surface-active prey (primarily hemipterans...

... management, Kangaroo Island - Duka and Masters 2005; kangaroo cull Australian Capital Territory reserves Cox and Thistleton 2012; Jean 2013) or through governments support of community landcare that does not explicitly include the need for ecological input (see e.g., Burgin 2002; Lunney and Burgin 2002...

.... Australian Zoologist volume 40 (1) Saunders & Doley 214 2019 Theme Edition: Killing for Conservation The only other culling program of over-abundant cockatoos to reduce threats to an endangered cockatoo that we are aware of is the culling of Galah and Little Corella on Kangaroo Island. Both species colonised...

... latirostris; Zanda funerea; Zanda whiteae; Zanda xanthanota Published: 10 August 2023 DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.022 INTRODUCTION Members of the endemic black cockatoo genera Calyptorhynchus Desmarest, 1826 and Zanda Mathews, 1913 occur over much of mainland Australia, Tasmania, Kangaroo Island...

...), including the extensively burnt habitats of Kangaroo Island, South Australia where more than half of the island s 50,000 Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) were thought to be killed (Mannix 2020) (National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia, httpswww.parks.sa.gov. au/park-management/bushfire-recovery...

... of Australia ed by R. Strahan. Australian Museum/Reed Books: Chatswood, NSW. The Mammals of Australia 89 90 Waite, E. R. and Jones, F. W., 1927. The fauna of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. No. 2. - The mammals. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 51: 322-325. The fauna...

... and translocation for over-abundant Koalas on Kangaroo Island, South Australia Ecological Management and Restoration 6 (3), 172-181. Confronting a tough issue: Fertility control and translocation for over-abundant Koalas on Kangaroo Island, South Australi Ecological Management and Restoration 6 172 181...

... in the threatened glossy black- cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami on Kangaroo Island Reduction in hollow availability through broad-scale habitat loss, transformation and fragmentation; increases in possum abundance through habitat change and use of agricultural landscapes Garnett et al. (1999); Berris et al. (2018...

..., kangaroo rats and a few dingoes (Sydney Mail 1931). If this is true, it is likely that koalas were either already present or came across from the mainland when water levels were low. There is no evidence that the Queensland government used Rita Island as part of the restocking scheme that was announced...

...-tailed Black Cockatoo in the wheatbelt and the Glossy Black Cockatoo on Kangaroo Island, have the slowest nestling growth rates and longest nestling periods, and feed almost exclusively on single species of food plants. They are a contrast with Carnaby s Cockatoo, which has a shorter nestling period...

... . The large photograph has a big koala in the foreground and a man standing nearby looking at the koala. The caption reads, Farmer Andrew Kelly with one of the endangered Kangaroo Island koalas. The text by Tim Dornin explains the headline: The NSW Government has agreed to a trial relocation of sterilised...

... authors: Garnett et al. s (1999) study on Glossy Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus lathami on Kangaroo Island (n= 4 8); Johnstone et al. s (2013a) study on Forest Red-tailed Cockatoos in south-western Australia (n = 12); and my (Saunders and Ingram 1998; Saunders and Dawson 2018; Saunders et al. 2022) study...

... on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Ecological Management & Restoration 6: 172-81. Confronting a tough issue: fertility control and translocation for over-abundant koalas on Kangaroo Island, South Australia Ecological Management & Restoration 6 172 81 Ellis, W.A.H., Melzer, A., Carrick...

... that six and twelve French Island koalas were translocated to Kangaroo Island, South Australia in 1923 and 1925, respectively (Martin 1989). A report in The Argus (1923), however, reports that the first six 5 Koala translocations continue to present day (2017) in order to manage the size of some Victorian...