Officers from Oxley Police District are reminding people not to enter flooded rivers or creeks after a man was injured when his vehicle was swept away in.
Will Cornwell, Casey Kirchhoff, Mark Ooi
Community scientists have been photographing animals and plants in the months after the Black Summer fires. Each observation is a story of survival against the odds, or of tragedy.
Regrowth after bushfires. Picture: hamiltonphillipa/iNaturalist
Around one year ago, Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season ended, leaving more than 8 million hectares across south-east Australia a mix of charcoal, ash and smoke. An estimated three billion animals were killed or displaced, not including invertebrates.
The impact of the fires on biodiversity was too vast for professional scientists alone to collect data. So in the face of this massive challenge, we set up a community (citizen) science project through the iNaturalist website to help paint a more complete picture of which species are bouncing back and which are not.
Five stories of flora and fauna after Australia’s bushfires
Burgeoning recoveries from Australia’s largest ever bushfire. (Image: hamiltonphillipa/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SA)
Around one year ago, Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season ended, leaving more than 8 million hectares across south-east Australia a mix of charcoal, ash and smoke. An estimated three billion animals were killed or displaced, not including invertebrates.
The impact of the fires on biodiversity was too vast for professional scientists alone to collect data. So in the face of this massive challenge, we set up a community (citizen) science project through the iNaturalist website to help paint a more complete picture of which species are bouncing back and which are not.
Around one year ago, Australia's Black Summer bushfire season ended, leaving more than 8 million hectares across south-east Australia a mix of charcoal,.