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In association with its 12th Biennial Bushfire Conference Cool, Warm, Hot: the burning questions, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW’s Bushfire Program held a field day on the 4th June at North Head S

Over three days in May 2021, the Nature Conservation Council’s Bushfire Program hosted their 12th Biennial Bushfire Conference Cool, Warm, Hot: the burning questions.

The online conference attracted more than

Do you want to better understand the effects of the 2019/20 fire season on the NSW environment? The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment have released a summary of the impacts of the 2019/20 fire

The Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) has produced three short videos to assist bush regenerators across the state with post-fire landscapes.

The series discusses the role of bush

The Biolinks Alliance have released the keynote presentations from their Greater and Squirrel Glider Symposium online. The Biolinks Alliance is a Victorian organisation that works on building partnerships between

The Threatened Species Recovery Hub hosted a four part webinar series in August/September (2020) on climate, fire and biodiversity. The Threatened Species Recovery Hub is funded by the Australian Government’s N

Kim Stephan, ecologist and NCC representative on the Far North Coast Bushfire Management Committee, shares her insights on the effect of fires in old-growth forests. This article originally appeared the Tweed

Friends of the Koala hosted a 2-hour webinar focusing on koala habitat restoration in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

Facilitated by Richard Davies from DPIE, the webinar includes presentations by Billie

The Department of Industry and Environment has produced a series of short videos to demonstrate how to add data into the NSW BioNet Atlas. BioNet is the repository for all the biodiversity data products managed

NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub hosted five
webinars in September (2020) on the research projects undertaken to assist with
the NSW Bushfire Inquiry. Leading experts presented each topic with

Renowned ABC journalist Kerry O’Brien hosts the first of two panel discussions run by the Big Scrub Landcare group on the impacts of fire on Australia’s rainforests.

Panel one looks at the impacts of the 201

The devastating bushfire season of 2019/20 affected 5.5 million hectares of land in NSW alone, 26 people lost their lives, 2,476 homes were destroyed and 25% of suitable koala habitat was burnt, along with 81% of

Simtable modeling has given the Ku-ring-gai local council an innovative way of explaining fire danger to their local residents. Through funding provided by the NSW Government, Local Government NSW has invested in

The Conversation covered a range of topics from 2019/20 bush fire season. This latest blog-style feature piece tells the story of the 2019/20 bush fires across Australia and the impact on our native flora and

The Centre of Excellence for Prescribed Burning has published a new book, Prescribed Burning in Australasia: the science, practice and politics of burning in the bush. Over 50 authors have contributed to this

In May, the BHCRC hosted its National Fire Fuels Science Forum. Usually hosted live, the forum was moved online due to COVID-19 restrictions. The three-day forum was converted into three online webinars that

A new website designed to help fire and land managers “compare the risk reduction benefits and costs from different combinations of prescribed burning strategies”, was launched in July 2020. The Bushfire Natural

NCC’s Bushfire Program hosted a 1hr webinar on June 2nd with three leading experts who delved into the impacts of the recent 2019-2020 bush fires on a range of ecosystems across NSW including our northern

Dr Ross Peacock from Macquarie University answers audience questions following the live webinar Flames in the Rainforests: bushfire impacts and restoration in NSW hosted by NCC’s Bushfire Program on June

Conservationist Dailan Pugh answers audience questions following the live webinar Flames in the Rainforests: bushfire impacts and restoration in NSW hosted by NCC’s Bushfire Program on June 2nd.

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