Two forest researchers whose own communities were threatened by fires in 2021 explain how historic policies left forests at high risk of megafires.
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A staggering 17,500 tree species are at risk of dying out.
Observations collected since the 1980s in the Amazon, Central Africa and Southeast Asia show we are not giving tropical forests enough time to recover after logging.
Towering trees in African tropical mountain forests are a vital, overlooked carbon store threatened by deforestation.
This fluffy-eared marsupial was listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the national environment law in 2016. Five years later, it meets the criteria to be listed as ‘endangered’. Australia must do better.
The Tongass National Forest in Alaska, a focus of political battles over old-growth logging and road-building in forests for decades, has received new protection from the Biden administration.
For phascogales, tree hollows are getting harder to find. I venture into forests and study how well artificial hollows made with chainsaws can replace them.
Rather than considering the job done, Tasmania should seize opportunities including renewable energy, net-zero industrial exports and forest preservation.
Environmental groups have protested logging of British Columbia’s old-growth rainforest for three decades. But the Fairy Creek dispute could grow into another ‘War in the Woods.’
They overlook a vast body of evidence that crown fire – the most extreme type of fire behaviour in which tree canopies burn - is more likely in logged native forests.
Timber company VicForests won its appeal last week and logging is set to resume. Let’s take a look at the dramatic implications for wildlife and the law.
Our research is deeply concerning because it signals there are no quick fixes to the ongoing fire crisis afflicting Australia, which is being driven by relentless climate change.
Large-scale tree-planting projects are politically popular and media-friendly, but without effective planning and long-term management, they can do more harm than good.
Part of an Indigenous ancestral trail was cleared by a logging company last summer, despite it being a protected cultural site under Alberta law.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s government did not have a perfect environmental record. But at least things were starting to change.
The federal government has ordered a national koala audit, but the animals are notoriously difficult to detect. But accurately counting koalas is critical to saving them.
Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon is a false choice.
These trees are too important to be destroyed in the name of the forestry industry. This is why my husband Steve Pearce and I climb, explore and photograph them.
Forests must improve communities’ livelihoods to rise as a sustainable management solution
As climate change increases the frequency and scale of bushfires, our models suggest the habitats in Victoria’s Central Highlands may be hard to come by.
Top contributors
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Visiting fellow, Australian National University
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Threatened Species Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science Department, Zoos Victoria, and Visiting Scholar, School of Life & Environmental Science, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Senior Research Fellow in Ecology, Griffith University
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Cooperative Extension Forester and Natural Resources Advisor, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Cooperative Extension Forester and Natural Resources Advisor, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, University of Tasmania