The Leeuwin Group
The Leeuwin Group (TLG) is an independent group of concerned scientists who are committed to the conservation and protection of Western Australia's biodiversity and natural environment.
TLG's purpose is to: Provide high-level independent scientific commentary and advice on environmental matters to Government, industry, environmental organisations and managers.
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Likely substantial impacts of Western Australian government prescribed fire policies on biodiversity in a global hotspot
Fire, both intentional and unintentional, is of major concern in Australia with the likelihood of increasing fire frequencies due to global warming. In Western Australia, a policy of prescribed burning has been in place since the mid-20th Century. It currently targets the annual burning of 200,000 ha of bushland, in Western Australia?s unique south-west biodiversity hotspot.
read more ..Prescribed burning's impact on biodiversity | Pearls and Irritations
We are constantly reminded by government agencies that the bush must be burned to avoid being incinerated in our beds. This has been made more urgent due to fires becoming more fierce and more frequent as a result of global warming. But we are not told of the havoc to wildlife caused by too frequent burning, nor of the desecration of ecosystems that rarely experienced severe fire before the arrival of Europeans.
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- Likely substantial impacts of Western Australian government prescribed fire policies on biodiversity in a global hotspot
- Prescribed burning's impact on biodiversity
- To Burn, or Not to Burn: A Critical Perspective
- Botanical jewels in Western Australia's southern forests are under threat
- The Leeuwin Group submission - EPA Assessments 2385 and 2253
- Facing the facts?: What does the science say about Alcoa's public relations claims?
- ALCOA IS DESTROYING OUR FORESTS End Mining the World's Only Jarrah Forest
- Response to Report 62 by the Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs
- Defining and Creating New Protected Areas in the South West Forests Beyond 2024
- 'Fire regimes that cause biodiversity decline' as a Key Threatening Process - Submission to the Threatened Species Scientific Committee from The Leeuwin Group of Scientists
- Coming of age: research shows old forests are 3 times less flammable than those just burned