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Hanson Bay Sanderson Visit parks.sa.gov.au SOUTHERN OCEAN Bay Get the Avenza Maps app to use park maps on your phone. Weirs Cove Remarkable Rocks Cape du Couedic lighthouse and Admirals Arch For more information, contact: SOUTHERN OCEAN Department for Environment and Water North Casuarina CAPE DU COUEDIC E: [email protected] SANCTUARY ZONE P: 08 8207 7700 The bushfire and recovery story of Flinders Chase National Park

The 2019-20 summer bushfires on Kangaroo Island were the largest in the island’s recorded Recovery journey of Flinders Chase history. More than 200,000 hectares of the Work is underway by National Parks and Wildlife Service 440,500-hectare island was burnt – that’s South Australia (NPWSSA) to help affected parks and almost half the island. Hundreds of firefighters reserves recover. This has included supporting native wildlife recovery, rebuilding visitor facilities and creating a were involved, supported by other agencies, process to reimagine nature-based tourism in these private industry and the local community. special places.

The west end of the island, home to the internationally Essential infrastructure is being rebuilt to make park renowned Flinders Chase National Park was heavily affected facilities safe and accessible for visitors, and the recovery by the bushfires – with 96 per cent of the park (and adjoining of affected wildlife is being supported with activities Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area) burnt. ranging from rapid assessment surveys and native animal relocations, to feral cat and pig management. Bushfire damage to Flinders Chase Funding of $7 million has been invested in parks visitor Much of the park was burnt in the bushfires, with the visitor centre, facilities across Kangaroo Island – noting that not only has walking trails including the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail, the Kangaroo Island tourism industry been hard hit by boardwalks and visitor facilities destroyed, and heritage-listed bushfires, but also the COVID-19 pandemic. buildings damaged. Plant life is already bouncing back at Flinders Chase. Many Luckily, the tourism drawcard of Remarkable Rocks is still native plant species are adapted to survive, regenerate intact and the iconic sites of Admirals Arch, Cape du Couedic and thrive after fire. Native sedges, ghanias, yaccas, Lighthouse and cottages, and Weirs Cove, as well as Cape Borda hakeas and mallees are re-sprouting and turning the Lighthouse and cottages were untouched by the bushfires. landscape green again. Get involved

Through the devastation of the bushfires, a unique opportunity has emerged to reimagine and renew visitor experiences in Flinders Chase National Park (including Ravine des Casoars and Cape Bouguer wilderness protection areas and Cape Borda), as well as Kelly Hill Conservation Park and Seal Bay Conservation Park. Stay up to date by registering your interest at: https://reimagine-ki.parks.sa.gov.au Remarkable Rocks

Donate to the Wildlife Recovery Fund to assist with the recovery and restoration of native plants and animals to re-establish habitat for wildlife in the state’s bushfire-ravaged regions. The Fund is a partnership between NPWSSA and Nature Foundation SA. For more information go to: www.naturefoundation.org.au/support-us/wildlife-recovery-fund Kangaroo Island dunnart

We’d love to see any interesting photos you capture of the park. Post them to your socials with #FlindersChase. Support bushfire recovery by becoming a virtual citizen scientist. You can help bushfire recovery by identifying animals in photographs taken by our motion sensor-activated cameras located across Kangaroo Island’s bushfire-affected parks. Find out more about becoming a virtual citizen scientist, as well as other bushfire recovery efforts at www.parks.sa.gov.au/bushfire-recovery Southern brown bandicoot

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