Two Palaszczuk government ministers have backed a proposal to rename the world’s largest sand island K’gari,an Aboriginal word for “paradise”.
Seven threatened plant and animal species on the World Heritage-listed site also had up to three-quarters of their island habitat burnt,a long-awaited Queensland government scientific report has found.
A delicate race against time to remove tonnes of flood debris from a World-Heritage listed island is ramping up.
Fire-control strategies considered amid the blaze on K’gari last year included a “do-nothing” option that referenced the risk of litigation from the island’s tourism industry and community.
Details have emerged of the efforts Queensland authorities took in the early days of the blaze,eventually burning more than half the World Heritage-listed site also known as Fraser Island.
Internal Queensland government documents detail the early scramble to manage the blaze,which burned more than half the World Heritage-listed island across two months from October last year.
Fraser Island campers will have the number plates of their 4WDs photographed by the Queensland government as they try to prevent bushfires on Australia’s largest sand island.
Thirty-eight recommendations were tabled by the Queensland government in its review of the bushfire that razed 87,000 hectares of the World Heritage-listed island.
In the second attack on Fraser Island in as many weeks,a dingo has bitten a boy on Orchid Beach.
The woman said she ran outside after hearing a child scream and rescued the two-year-old,who was being attacked by a growling dingo.
A review into the Queensland government’s response to the 2020 bushfire is expected to be made publicly ‘in due course’ amid calls for compensation and a further inquiry.