 NASA estimated that the number of dead koalas could be as high as 25,000 or about half the total population of the species on the island.A quarter of the beehives of the Ligurian honey bees that inhabited the Island were believed to have been destroyed.Both the Kangaroo Island dunnart and Kangaroo Island subspecies of the glossy black cockatoo are endangered and are only found on Kangaroo Island.