Published: December 12, 2020
2015 blaze near Northcliffe took local quokka population from 600 to 39, and study shows there are now 272
A quokka population nearly wiped out by a severe bushfire in Western Australia may take more than a decade to fully recover, research has shown.
When fire in 2015 charred 98,000 hectares of forest near Northcliffe, a small town in the state’s south-west, the local quokka population was decimated.
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