There’s a new plan to manage Victoria’s forests. But if it uses machines to ‘thin’ trees this could affect wildlife and increase bushfire risk.
- Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
New research shows how Western science can support cultural burning to deliver benefits across cultures – as well as for nature.
Wildlife monitoring is vital to arresting Australia’s extinction crisis. But research shows we may be getting false pictures of how species are faring.
All the evidence – colonial accounts and records, First Peoples’ testimony and scientific data – points to the existence of widespread tall, dense forests 250 years ago.
Victoria’s iconic mountain ash forests are reeling from decades of logging and fire. They’re not recovering on their own.
Fires and logging changes forest soil structure for at least 30-80+ years, affecting everything from regrowth to carbon storage.
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