Opinion

Australia is losing its capacity to understand environmental recovery

By David Lindenmayer
January 20 2020 - 7:00pm
Barrie Tabourie the flying fox was found injured and crying near a burned out stretch of land in Lake Tabourie the day after a bushfire swept through the area. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Barrie Tabourie the flying fox was found injured and crying near a burned out stretch of land in Lake Tabourie the day after a bushfire swept through the area. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong

By April 2020 let's hope that Australia's catastrophic fire season is finally over ... at least until next season. The forests, woodlands and native grasslands that have been burned are not permanently destroyed as often proclaimed in the media. But they will take some time to regrow. Most forests will recover, although others may be irreversibly changed. But will koala populations rebound? How will other iconic native animals fare, like marsupial gliding possums and lyrebirds?

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