While the devastation on #KangarooIsland after the bushfires is confronting, the epicormic sprouting in the eucalypts and resilience of the #Xanthorrhoea 6 weeks later are heartening #yakka #bushfireaustralia

"The primary question among the science community was: did the fires show that we are approaching a tipping point? Or are we going through it? Or have we crashed through the other side?" Professor Bowman said.
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'The National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework warned the changing climate was exposing the country to natural disasters on ‘‘unimagined scales, in unprecedented combinations and in unexpected locations’’.
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'..Australian National University landscape ecology expert Professor David #Lindenmayer said multiple academic and forest industry studies showed forest thinning in Australia "makes forests more fire prone".
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#PuntaArenas #AustralianWildFires #bushfireaustralia #AustraliaBurns

'Until Saturday, the #Morrison government's approach to this fire season was to react rather than act, to follow rather than lead and to blame shift. Just like it continues to do on climate change.'

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