The awaited release of this year’s NCC Bushfire Conference recordings are now publicly available for everyone to enjoy. Held over two days in May 2025, the conference theme: Can we burn to learn? Sustaining people, nature and Country was an incredibly well received event attended by over 277 delegates from 130 different organisations. There were 8 sessions overall, totalling over 11 hours of important and insightful discussions, data, and decision making.
Themes discussed included, fire management and applications; restoring country and culture; fauna monitoring post fire; lessons from a changing climate and communities taking the lead. A special thank you to all those who presented, particularly the keynote speakers:
- Emeritus Professor Ross Bradstock – Environmental outcomes of strategic fire management: known knowns and unknowns and the case to ‘burn in order to learn‘.
- Professor Don Driscoll – New insights from The Australian Megafire Synthesis, Jack Pascoe – Restoring Biocultural Landscapes in Maar Meereeng.
- Associate Professor Rachael Nolan – Changing fire regimes are impacting forest carbon stocks.
- Dr. Rachel Morgain – Fostering socio-ecological approaches to addressing systemic risks in bushfire emergency response, recovery and resilience.
- Dr. Jack Pascoe – Restoring Biocultural Landscapes in Maar Meereeng
- Greg Mullins – Los Angeles and wholesale destruction could it happen here?
Praised for the challenging conversations, varied topics and increased representation of all those involved in fire, there is something to learn from this year’s conference for everyone. So please feel free to check out and share this valuable resource to anyone involved or interested in fire and land management, fire ecology, community resilience and much more!
Follow the link here to access the recordings through the Bushfire Program website.
Link to the original conference article here
Link to the field day article here
Access the full conference program here
This article was written by Campbell Goff, Healthy Ecosystems Project Officer with the Nature Conservation Council of NSW
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