Echidna sightings on Aboriginal-owned Lungtalanana/Clarke Island excite after extensive bushfires

ABC News Australia · Sophie Jaggers · 2026-11-04 22:20 UTC

At first, there was just one; now, new trail camera footage from Tasmania's Lungtalanana/Clarke Island has shown multiple echidnas survived a near-island-wide bushfire in 2014, exciting conservationists.

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New trail camera footage from Tasmania's Lungtalanana/Clarke Island raises hopes that the echidna population is recovering.

In 2014, a bushfire destroyed 98 per cent of the vegetation on the Aboriginal-owned island.

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