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How can we protect Australia's #wildlife against the impacts of severe and extensive #Bushfire? Thread.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50511963?fbclid=IwAR1il_zwoAcGpkX8bnyEFpVDss68vM0j6AMFmytc1P0NLbcwBHG6dwnFpkE
1. Governments must act to combat #ClimateChange and halt the #ClimateEmergency.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50511963?fbclid=IwAR1il_zwoAcGpkX8bnyEFpVDss68vM0j6AMFmytc1P0NLbcwBHG6dwnFpkE
1. Governments must act to combat #ClimateChange and halt the #ClimateEmergency.
2. Protect existing habitat, incl. ending extensive land clearing and habitat fragmentation, reduce overgrazing, and manage fire regimes.
3. Support restoration of Aboriginal fire management.
3. Support restoration of Aboriginal fire management.
4. Control introduced predators, such as feral cats and red foxes, which can sometimes take advantage of burnt areas to hunt wildlife when fire destroys their shelter.
5. Translocate wildlife from severely burnt areas to more suitable habitat or captive populations.
5. Translocate wildlife from severely burnt areas to more suitable habitat or captive populations.
6. Reintroduce animals to areas when/if their habitat recovers, to boost wild populations.
7. Provide artificial shelters in burnt areas to provide wildlife with cover from predators while habitats recovers.
7. Provide artificial shelters in burnt areas to provide wildlife with cover from predators while habitats recovers.
8. Manage herbivore abundance to allow vegetation cover and complexity to recover after fire...
Refs:
1. https://theconversation.com/bushfires-are-pushing-species-towards-extinction-54109
2. https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/98/3/835/3063279
3. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2664.13427
4. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0576-5
5. https://theconversation.com/our-land-is-burning-and-western-science-does-not-have-all-the-answers-100331
6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320715002086?via%3Dihub
Refs:
1. https://theconversation.com/bushfires-are-pushing-species-towards-extinction-54109
2. https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/98/3/835/3063279
3. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2664.13427
4. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0576-5
5. https://theconversation.com/our-land-is-burning-and-western-science-does-not-have-all-the-answers-100331
6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320715002086?via%3Dihub
