More than 50 koalas died in 2012 when a fire tore through Mikkira Station on SA's Eyre Peninsula. Now, the colony is thriving — but sanctuary owners worry it could happen again.
When the grass fades to yellow and the temperatures rise across the limestone paddocks at Mikkira Station, it's time to close the gate to tourists.
Station owner Helen de la Perelle knows the risk of a fire and what a blaze might do to her main tourist attraction — koalas. "We had a fire that started by a lightning strike and … it burned down a lot of trees and killed a lot of the koalas here," Ms de la Perrelle said."It was really quite distressing for the poor little things.
The board runs a citizen scientist project to record sightings of koalas to help monitor their population.
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