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Shocking Koala Deaths in Blue gum Plantations, ‘Business as Usual’ in Public Native Forests

The Australian Forests and Climate Alliance, (AFCA), condemns the koala deaths in a Victorian private plantation clearing operation recently but says the public need to know that wildlife carnage is business as usual in public native forests.

AFCA spokeswoman, Frances Pike says “The industrial logging machinery of native forest logging crushes, maims, …

What are Hazard Reduction Burns, Are We Doing Enough Of Them And Could They Have Stopped Australia’s Catastrophic Bushfires?

What Are Hazard Reduction Burns, Are We Doing Enough Of Them And Could They Have Stopped Australia’s Catastrophic Bushfires

10 January 2020 – Fire Chiefs And Premiers – ABC News

“As Australia’s eastern states endure the most widespread and intense bushfires we’ve ever seen, experts, politicians and social media pundits are again debating whether the country needs more hazard …

A Burning Issue – Forest Fires Make More Fires

A Burning Issue – Forest Fires Make More Fires

7 August 2018 – Ecological Society of Australia

The most comprehensive analysis ever performed of fires in the Australian Alps has revealed that fire has made the forests more likely to burn. Frequent fire increases the risk of fire and of ecosystem collapse in mountain forests, which are highly vulnerable …