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A significant proportion of volunteer firefighters report devastating post traumatic stress and thoughts of suicide. We need to support them better.
Without changes, many birds will continue to decline or be lost altogether. But when conservation action is well resourced and implemented, we can turn the trend around.
Forest fires in Australia are burning more land across more of the year than ever before, as climate-linked fire weather worsens.
The message of Eva Orner’s new documentary is spot on, the logic of its argument faultless. But it tells us things more than it makes us feel things, and this is seldom beneficial in the medium.
Figures released this week suggest Australia’s koala populations have plummeted. So what’s the best way to protect these iconic animals from fires?
New research also identified steps people wished they’d taken to prepare for disaster, such as protecting sentimental items, planning a meeting place and better managing stress.
They overlook a vast body of evidence that crown fire – the most extreme type of fire behaviour in which tree canopies burn - is more likely in logged native forests.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow in Ecology and Conservation Science, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Adjunct professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Principal Research Scientist at NSW Primary Industries and Adjunct Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
