The animals are difficult to find and study due to their size — fully-grown adults weigh just seven grams. Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife has been conducting extensive surveys of the remaining forest in an attempt to figure out which species survived the blaze. "It's very important now because it is kind of like the last refuge for a lot of these species that really rely on very old long, unburned vegetation," Mr Hodgens said.
More than 20 other wildlife species have been located, including a bibrons toadlet, a southern brown bandicoot and a tammar wallaby.
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