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"Few could forget the devastating megafires that raged across southeast and
western Australia during 2019-20. As well as killing people and destroying
homes and towns, the fires killed wildlife and burnt up to 96,000km² of animal
habitat – an area bigger than Hungary.
Under climate change, megafires will become increasingly common. This is likely
to leave many species needing help at the same time, over vast areas. So our
new research, released today, devised a way for conservation scientists and
others to determine which actions, and where, will best help wildlife recover.
We also put a price tag on these measures. We found about A$2.7 billion should
have been spent across Australia in the year after the megafires to mitigate
all threats to 290 severely affected threatened animal and plant species. This
is almost 13 times the funding dedicated by the former federal Coalition
government.
The paltry spending means many species severely harmed by the megafires were
left in desperate trouble, potentially pushing some closer to extinction."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
