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Overview

Altered fire regimes and climate change mean that severe wildfires are more frequent and more likely to have negative impacts on both fire-prone and fire-resistant ecosystems in Australia, and the many species these ecosystems support.

This collection pulls together resources to support assessing and addressing impacts from bushfires on biodiversity, including threatened species and threatened ecological communities. It includes: assessment tools; approaches to protecting biodiversity through wildfires; guidelines and examples for restoring biodiversity impacted by bushfires; considerations for managing other threats in the context of bushfire recovery; and approaches to resilient restoration.

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Design considerations for post natural disaster (fire) on-ground assessment of status of species, ecological communities, habitats and threats

These guidelines provide design considerations for conducting post-fire reconnaissance surveys to assess fire severity, habitat condition and threats to threatened species following severe fire events.
Guidelines · 2020 · NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub
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Responses of natural resource management groups to biodiversity loss and recovery in the 2019–20 wildfires

Chapter in the book Australia's Megafires: Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020, synthesising insights from NRM-led recovery projects across severely fire-affected regions.
Report · 15 minutes · 2023 · Rachel Morgain, Karleah K. Berris, Leigh Blackmore, Paul Donatiu, Paul Jennings, Cherie White and Jacob White
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Coordinating to protect culture and biodiversity in the heat of wildfires

This webinar in our joint series with the National Environmental Science Program's Threatened Species Recovery Hub brings together perspectives from researchers, managers and policy makers to discuss what systems or responses are needed to better protect biodiversity and empower First Nations leadership in the heat of bushfire events.
Webinar · 1:58:56 · 2021 · NRM Regions Australia
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Bushfire recovery resources from the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub

Links to a wide range of projects and resources for recovery of biodiversity, threatened species and ecological communities, developed following the 2019-20 bushfires in southern Australia
Stakeholder link · 2021 · NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub
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Restoring our landscape – a basic revegetation guide for fire-affected areas of Tasmania

General guidelines to support landholder planning biodiversity recovery and restoration post-bushfires.
Guidelines · 2013 · NRM South
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Biodiversity costs and lessons from the 2019-20 wildfires with John Woinarski

National synthesis of the impacts of the 2019-20 bushfires on biodiversity, and the lessons learnt for protecting and recovering biodiversity during extreme wildfires.
Webinar · 34:41 · 2022
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Recovery of Mountain Pygmy-possums in the Victorian Alps

New collaboration to understand drivers of possum decline and find solutions to protect the species
Case study · "3 minutes" · 2024

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