Kangaroo Island dunnart: Saving a bushfire-ravaged marsupial

Name: Kangaroo Island dunnart: Saving a bushfire-ravaged marsupial
Uploaded: 2021-02-20T21:40:16.000Z
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: Already critically endangered, Australia's Kangaroo Island dunnart has lost most of its habitat.

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The Kangaroo Island dunnart was already critically endangered when its habitat was ravaged by Australia's bushfires last year.

Now ecologists are desperate to protect the "cryptic and mysterious" marsupial.

The BBC visited Kangaroo Island to learn more.

Video by Simon Atkinson

Australia

20 February 2021