It’s a scene of life after disaster that’s seen time and time again. But for locals on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, the tiny sprigs of greenery in a blackened landscape represent renewed hope.

THE extension of war into Yugoslav territory takes it into an area of the south-eastern Europe fauna and flora which had only begun to be properly explored by biologists within modern times.

They’re intended to create “ambassadors” who become inspired to help raise the profile of and protect the precious areas they visit, and the unique flora and fauna that ... bottom of the South Island.