Changing native vegetation laws to allow burning on private land is good fire management
- Written by: Gabriel Crowley, Adjunct associate professor in geography, University of Adelaide
Bushfires cause catastrophic biodiversity loss across Australia. In the Black Summer of 2019–20 alone, 103,400 square kilometres of habitat went up in flames.
The irony is, laws to protect native vegetation did nothing to prevent this destruction. This is because, in most states, these laws make it hard for private landholders to burn on...
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