The fire covered nearly 85,000ha – just over half the island – and 30 different water bombing aircraft dropped more than 13 million litres of water on the fire.
Thirty-eight recommendations were tabled by the Queensland government in its review of the bushfire that razed 87,000 hectares of the World Heritage-listed island.
© Provided by Xinhua To protect vulnerable flatback nesting turtles, the Queensland government has spent 1.2 million Australian dollars (about 930,000
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