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Yes, the Australian bush is recovering from bushfires – but it may never be the same

Yes, the Australian bush is recovering from bushfires – but it may never be the same

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Grant Williamson

As bushfires in New South Wales are finally contained, attention is turning to nature’s recovery. Green shoots are sprouting and animals are returning. But we must accept that in some cases, the bush may never return to its former state.

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Friday essay: this grandmother tree connects me to Country. I cried when I saw her burned

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Vanessa Cavanagh

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people.

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Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Vanessa Cavanagh

How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and animals?

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A season in hell: bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction

Posted on January 8, 2020 by David Bowman

Images of desperate, singed koalas in blackened landscapes have come to symbolise the damage to nature this bushfire season. Such imagery has catalysed global concern, but the toll on biodiversity is much more pervasive.

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