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Similarly, within UKTNP, the Tjakura subpopulation suffered significant declines in the number of active burrows at sites after wildfires occurred (Bennison and West 2018). Broadscale surveys across Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary Wildlife Sanctuary found only 16% of 78 active burrows recorded occurred in recently burnt habitats (Moore et al. 2015).

 Whether burnt burrows become inactive because Tjakura families are unable to survive post-fire or move to another area is still not entirely known. Clearly Tjakura can survive the immediate impacts of fire by remaining deep within their burrows and
 while some animals may be able to relocate to nearby areas of unburnt habitat after a fire, a radio-tracking and burrow monitoring study at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary did not find any evidence of Tjakura shifting homes in the first month after a fire, but did find that the majority of burnt burrows became inactive within 4 months of being burnt (Moore et al. 2015).

 The extensive effort required to construct complex family burrows and the considerable risk of predation when dispersing through burnt habitats suggests it's unlikely that Tjakura family groups will collectively relocate after fire. Rather, the disappearance of Tjakura from recently burnt burrows is assumed to be due to increased vulnerability to predation when their spinifex cover is removed.

Predation
 Feral cats have been found to be a significant predator of Tjakura.

 Cats, foxes, dingoes, goannas, woma pythons, and mulgaras are all potential predators that have been recorded visiting Tjakura burrows (Moore et al. 2017, Ridley 2015) but cats were the predators recorded most frequently at burrows during the Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary burning experiment (Moore et al. 2017).
 Although there was no evidence that cats visited burnt burrows more often than unburnt burrows (Moore et al. 2017), we assume that the cats' hunting success was greater at the more open burnt sites, based on a study of cat hunting success in the Kimberley (McGregor
 et al. 2015). The loss of Tjakura from burrows in the Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary burning experiment coincided with a period of high cat predation on Tjakura (Moore et al. 2015). Of the five cats recorded visiting the burrows at the time, three were found to contain Tjakura remains in their stomachs and a half-eaten Tjakura was found beside the tracks of a fourth cat the day it was killed (Paltridge, R. and Ellis, C. (2016), Australian Wildlife Conservancy unpublished data). Furthermore, Tjakura remains were found in 49% of 39 cat scats, 18% of 17 fox scats and 14% of 65 dingo scats (Moore et al. 2015).
  Photograph 12. A feral cat on caught on remote camera with a Tjakura in its mouth.
  Source: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Management

  High levels of predation on Tjakura have also