Resilience shines through during KI fire recovery

QM
Updated June 10 2021 - 2:05pm, first published 6:30am
Tanner Morris and parents Rick and Annie at their property on the south coast of Kangaroo Island. Despite being hit by three different firefronts during the KI fires and then losing sheep to the vicious disease campylobacter, things are starting to look up in 2021. They recently achieved a ten-year business goal of having 5000 ewes in lamb.
Tanner Morris and parents Rick and Annie at their property on the south coast of Kangaroo Island. Despite being hit by three different firefronts during the KI fires and then losing sheep to the vicious disease campylobacter, things are starting to look up in 2021. They recently achieved a ten-year business goal of having 5000 ewes in lamb.

CHARRED trees along the roadsides of Kangaroo Island are a stark reminder of the devastating bushfires that burned more than 200,000 hectares - almost half the Island's land mass - killed thousands of livestock, destroyed dozens of homes and took two lives 18 months ago, but its people are displaying resilience and positivity as they continue on the long road to recovery.

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