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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, <strong>Drones – The Future of Bushfire Management?</strong> 3 months, 3 weeks ago

    A recent article in the Guardian has explored the use of remotely piloted drones in order to facilitate the early detection of bushfires in otherwise inaccessible areas. It specifically discusses thermal

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, An Introduction to Citizen Science 4 months, 1 week ago

    Citizen science databases can be an excellent tool for getting to know the flora and fauna present within your surrounding environment, and these days there are plenty of platforms with publicly accessible

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Protecting Hollows With Citizen Science 4 months, 1 week ago

    Around the country, communities are using the power of citizen science to help protect a highly ecologically valuable and quickly disappearing natural resource – hollow-bearing trees.

    Tree hollows serve as v

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Thinning Forests for Bushfire Management – Does It Work? 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Particularly following the 2019-2020 bushfire season, various techniques to lessen the severity of bushfires have been discussed in great depth, with the mechanical thinning of forests emerging as a controversial

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, A firefighter, a traditional owner and a scientist walk into a bar 8 months, 1 week ago

    Watch the final showcase of the Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub as their initial works draw to a close. The Research Hub was established in 2018 as a joint initiative between four major universities, the

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, How a NCC community workshop in Kangaroo Valley connected people through nature 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    We are all
    familiar with the severe and extensive bushfires of 2019-20 which impacted the
    lives of so many people across the country and caused widespread and
    devastating ecological loss. Like many across

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Watch – Signs of Fire: measuring fire severity 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    We’ve all seen the current effects of climate change. As bushfires become larger, more sever and more frequent the impact upon Australia’s bushland will be significant. Understanding how changing fire regimes

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Watch – Signs of Fauna: what's living in your bushland? 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Ever wondered who your fury, scaly and feathered neighbours are? What lives in your local bush or your backyard? Ever wondered how to find out?

    As part of the Fire, Biodiversity and Community: connecting

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Watch – Monitoring bushland: using photo points 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Have you ever wanted to know more about your environment and how it is changing? Monitoring is a powerful tool that anyone can use to better help them understand the health and functioning of a landscape.

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Cultural burning in Southern Australia 9 months, 1 week ago

    The Bushfire and Natural Hazards Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) has developed a booklet on cultural burning, collating Aboriginal stories from Southern Australia. Six illustrated posters accompany the

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Trees Near Me app 12 months ago

    The NSW Department of Planning and Environment have released an app for android users that allows you to explore Plant Community Types out in the field. Plant Community Types are the finest scale of

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Watch – Ecological burns: a Council perspective 1 year ago

    Martin Roberts from Macedon Ranges Shire Council explores ecological burns from a Local Government perspective in a presentation for Victoria’s Healthy Landscapes – Practical Regenerative Agricultural Communities

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Book Review – A Wide & Open Land: Walking The Last Of Western Sydney’s Woodlands by Peter A. Ridgeway 1 year, 1 month ago

    As one who enjoys long bushwalks and studying nature, I was very keen to grab hold of a copy of this recent book. Having walked as a ‘swaggie’ from Yuleba to Surat along the Cobb and Co coach route in 2018 and

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, 'Business as usual won't cut it': The Conversation 1 year, 2 months ago

    Two years on from the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, this Conversation article
    analyses the current state of fire management and concludes only a multitude of
    approaches can save Australia from ever increasing

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Understanding fuel… and why we need to manage it 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Hotspots Fire Project, jointly delivered by the Nature
    Conservation Council and the NSW Rural Fire Service, has released the first in
    a series of fact sheets to help landholders better understand

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Watch – Saving wildlife after bushfires: what is the evidence for effective action 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Threatened Species Recovery Hub and NRM Regions Australia joined forces in October, bringing together researchers, decision-makers, land managers and community organisations to discuss how best to protect and

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Empowering Indigenous leadership in bushfire recovery, burning and land management 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Threatened Species Recovery Hub conducted research to better understand key Indigenous aspirations for cultural burning and bush fire management in southeast Australia. Researchers analysed submissions,

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Conserving Australia’s threatened native mammals in predator-invaded, fire-prone landscapes 1 year, 3 months ago

    Inappropriate fire regimes are a key threatening process for native mammals in Australia. Predation by feral animals such as cats and foxes is another key threatening process that often pushes already vulnerable

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Protecting threatened species and ecological communities before and during bushfire 1 year, 3 months ago

    Understanding how to protect threatened ecological communities from intense fire events is critical as the effects of climate change increase. The Threatened Species Research Hub conducted surveys with

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    Bushfire Volunteer wrote a new post, Gumbaynggirr Good Koala Country Plan 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Gumbaynggirr people of the mid-north coast have instigated a new initiative that combines traditional ecological knowledge and western scientific methods to better protect and manage Country and koala

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