The Nature Conservation Council attended the Climate Change and Bushfire Roundtable hosted by Cities Power Partnership in Katoomba. This brought together local government, experts and agencies to share knowledge and effective fire management strategies to prepare for climate risk and bushfires. The key roundtable speakers included Professor Lesley Hughes (Climate Councilor and Ecologist), Greg Mullins (Climate Councilor/Former NSW Fire Commissioner), Michael Eburn (Associate Professor in Bushfire at ANU) and Tim McNaught (Director Office of Bushfire and Risk Management, Western Australia). For more information on the presentations, discussions, and useful resources, please follow the link below.
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Thinning Forests for Bushfire Management – Does It Work?
Bushfire Volunteer, , 2020 Fires, Fire, Fire severity, Flammability, Hazard Reduction, Prescribed burns, prevention, Research, wildfire
Particularly following the 2019-2020 bushfire season, various techniques to lessen the severity of bushfires have been discussed in great...
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Empowering Indigenous leadership in bushfire recovery, burning and land management
Bushfire Volunteer, , Cultural burning
The Threatened Species Recovery Hub conducted research to better understand key Indigenous aspirations for cultural burning and bush fire...
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Protecting Monaro Bark Eating Koalas
admin, , Fauna, koalas
How one Rural Fire Service takes protection of bark eating koalas very seriously by Di Thompson, NCC representative on...
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Koala catch-up
Bushfire Volunteer, , Ecological burning, koalas
In our June 2018 newsletter a story about protecting the Monaro bark eating Koalas received lots of attention and...
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Fire and direct seeding to establish a pioneer community
Bushfire Volunteer, , seeding, weeds
The Upper Coldstream Biodiversity Project (UCBP) was a four-year Australian Government funded project implementing key actions to protect and...
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NCC Bushfire Conference 2023
Bushfire Volunteer, , bushfire, bushfire conference, climate, climate change, Conferences, Cultural burning, Ecological burning, Events, Featured, Fire severity, Hazard Reduction, prevention, Research, resources, wildfire
NCC’s 13th biennial Bushfire Conference, “Managing Bushfire Together: Applying science, skills and stories”, took place on the 24-25th May,...
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‘Four Friends of Fire’ Video
Bushfire Volunteer, , Fire, resources
An educational video on four factors that affect wildfire has been created by research fellow Hamish Clarke. Hamish Clarke...
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Box-Gum Grassy Woodlands – managing ground-layers
Michelle Rose NCC, , Cultural burning, EECs, Grassy Woodlands, Restoration
Jewels in the Landscape This guide published by CSIRO in 2015 aims to help land managers recognise, understand and...