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Australian Fire Danger Rating Training The Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Council (AFAC) has released a range of training videos to help you better understand the changes

Understanding Bell Miner Associated Dieback (BMAD) This article was written by Jim Morrison. Jim is the Northern Regional representative on Nature Conservation Council of NSW Executive

Managing Fire on Your Property Based on best available science and operational knowledge, the Hotspots Fire Project delivers workshops and resources to landholders and land

Free Online Fire Management Short Course  Are you a landholder interested in upscaling your land management skillset?   As part of their commitment to supporting the private l

Applying science, skills and stories at Ku-ring-gai, Sydney Directly following and complementing NCC’s 2023 Bushfire Conference, Managing Fire Together: Applying science, skills, and stories, NCC’s Bus

NCC Bushfire Conference 2023 NCC’s 13th biennial Bushfire Conference, “Managing Bushfire Together: Applying science, skills and stories”, took place on the 24-25th May,

Are You Taking Part in This Year’s Great Glossy Count? Have you read our article on citizen science? If you have, you’ll know how important contributions to public citizen science datasets a

Do Post-Fire Acacia Thickets Increase Long-term Fire Risk? Have you ever noticed dense thickets of Acacia emerge post-fire, and wondered if they may represent a long-term fire hazard? At our 2023

Measuring Soil Health & the Impacts of Fire Would you like to measure multiple aspects indicating the health of your property’s soil, without spending a fortune on expensive e

Drones – The Future of Bushfire Management? A recent article in the Guardian has explored the use of remotely piloted drones in order to facilitate the early detection of bushfires in

An Introduction to Citizen Science Citizen science databases can be an excellent tool for getting to know the flora and fauna present within your surrounding environment, and

Protecting Hollows With Citizen Science Around the country, communities are using the power of citizen science to help protect a highly ecologically valuable and quickly disappearing

Thinning Forests for Bushfire Management – Does It Work? Particularly following the 2019-2020 bushfire season, various techniques to lessen the severity of bushfires have been discussed in great

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

How a NCC community workshop in Kangaroo Valley connected people through nature 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

Watch – Signs of Fire: measuring fire severity We’ve all seen the current effects of climate change. As bushfires become larger, more sever and more frequent the impact upon Australia’s

Watch – Signs of Fauna: what's living in your bushland? 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?

Watch – Monitoring bushland: using photo points 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

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

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