This critically endangered marsupial survived a bushfire – then along came the feral cats
- Written by Louis Lignereux, Researcher, University of Adelaide
WWF AustraliaThe Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.
The Kangaroo Island dunnart is a mouse-sized...





