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Kangaroo Island is renowned for its native wildlife — the koalas are disease-free, the bees create the purest honey and it is home to one of Australia's rarest
marsupials.
Key facts of recent Bush-fires in Australia:
 About a third of Kangaroo Island has been burnt, including much of the Flinders Chase National Park
 Aerial imagery suggests the Kangaroo Island dunnart has been impacted
 Up to 500 Ligurian beehives may have succumbed to flames
But bushfires that ravaged the 4,400-square-kilometre island have left wildlife experts concerned about the future of some of its threatened species.
About a third of the island has been charred.
The fire has devastated the Flinders Chase National Park, which is home to koalas, kangaroos, rare birds and marsupials.
Threatened Species Recovery Hub deputy director John Woinarski — who is also a professor at Charles Darwin University — said the fires across Australia had been a
"holocaust of destruction" for wildlife.
"There's almost no considerable habitat remaining for many species. That leads to local extinction events," he said.
"Places like Kangaroo Island, where much of the landscape has been burnt in a really homogenous and extreme manner, that may mean some of the plant and animal species
… may have been eliminated completely.
"Certainly, their population liability would have crashed for many of these species and their risk of extinction has been substantially increased."

A lucky koala rescued from the bushfires and treated for its burns. (ABC News: Claire Campbell ) Kangaroo Island Before & After wildfires
Koala numbers on Kangaroo Island have been booming. There were an estimated 50,000 living on the island.
But it is unclear how many koalas perished in the devastating bushfires.
While Kangaroo Island koalas were not an endangered species, they were the only populations of the iconic marsupial that were chlamydia-free.
Adelaide University, South Australia's Department for Environment and Water and the University of the Sunshine Coast have been working to rejuvenate koala populations
across mainland Australia.
Researcher Dr Natasha Speight said Flinders Chase National Park was a hub for koalas.
"The western end of the island is known to support a large proportion of the koala population over there," she said.
"The impact on the koala population of the entire island is likely to be significant."

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Dear fellow SMART Rotarians and members of the family of Rotary.

Dear Happy New Year to all of you. Almost half of the year over for RY 2019-20. Really your appreciation & love has given full energy to me for doing
Projects, Events , &Weekly Meeting with guest speakers. In my view our Rotary members must have a truly global presence as first time we are trying
for Global Grant projects, so to make it success that goal, should be the dream of our every Rotarian, not just because it will give good impression to
our club image, but because a thirty year club truly deserve it.

The sad demise of beloved Rtn Vrushali Deshpande is a great loss to club. So will be remembered as Smiling and Cheerful lady. May her soul Rest in peace.

On 1st of December, Rotractors has done project by building two “ Vanarai Jal Bandhare” with the guidance of Parent club ie RCTMT at nearby Ambernath.
On 5th December initially the project carried out “ Peace and Conflict Resolution”. Kudos to our team members. We must appreciate the smart member Harmeet and Parmeet
Gulatis efforts to make it successful and memorable Family night celebration. The 50th Wedding Anniversary of our beloved member Rtn Subhash and Shobha Kapur,
Blessed by four Priest Hindu, Muslim Sikh, Isai .
RCTMT is proud to be Associated in the Pan India level project called “Ride for Bharat ke Veer” on 10th December for the Armed Force Military
Families. First time in the History of our club we have sponsored a new club. Charter Presentation of the New club ie RC of Thane Imperial, Installation of Chartered
President Rtn Nitin Bakare was celebrated on 15th December.
Disease, Prevention and treatment month celebration with Rtn Dr Abhijit Koshti and Rtn Dr Sangeeta Limaye has made the conversation with
interaction in Allopathy and Ayurveda respectively interviewed by Rtn Dr Sanyam Gadkari on 20th December.
The club assembly is a compulsory part in which we have informed and taken approved to various Projects which we are doing in new year, at the
same time JOSH President elected Rtn Sanjay Joglekar has presented his Board of Directors.
At the New Year beginning District conference [Discon2020] is scheduled on 1st February 2020 at CIDCO convention center Navi Mumbai. I want
all Rotarians of our club to be registered for Discon.So lets be connected with each other by showing that “ Rotary connects the world”…..that we are definitely that
difference -that "unnees bees ka pharak".

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