Tag: Bushfire management
World-first research confirms Australia’s forests became catastrophic fire risk after British invasion
Image: Andrew Brownbill/AAP
Australia’s forests now carry far more flammable fuel than before British invasion, our research shows, revealing the catastrophic risk created by non-Indigenous...
Fire management in Australia has reached a crossroads and ‘business as usual’ won’t cut it
Image: Darren England/AAP
The current wet conditions delivered by La Niña may have caused widespread flooding, but they’ve also provided a reprieve from the threat of bushfires...
The ‘Ringo Starr’ of birds is now endangered – here’s how we can still save our drum-playing palm cockatoos
Palm cockatoo breeding pair at the nesting hollow. Female on left, male on the right. Christina N. Zdenek
Australia’s largest parrot, the palm cockatoo,...
A surprising answer to a hot question: controlled burns often fail to slow a bushfire
Firefighters conduct property protection as a bushfire approaches
homes at Woodford NSW, Friday, November 8, 2019. Calls for more controlled
burning are common...