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NRM Regions Australia supports regional NRM organisations in bushfire recovery and preparedness, through coordinating and sharing resources, connecting practitioners, and ensuring policy makers and others understand the crucial role regional NRM organisations can and do play.

The following collections contain resources developed or curated by NRM Regions Australia to provide advice or insight into issues…

NRM Regions Australia supports regional NRM organisations in bushfire recovery and preparedness, through coordinating and sharing resources, connecting practitioners, and ensuring policy makers and others understand the crucial role regional NRM organisations can and do play.

The following collections contain resources developed or curated by NRM Regions Australia to provide advice or insight into issues of relevance to regional NRM organisations preparing for and undertaking bushfire recovery. Many of these resources were developed or identified through the Australian Government-funded NRM Regions Australia Bushfire Recovery Knowledge Project.

 
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Bushfire recovery and resilience collections

Explore evidence-based resources including articles, webinars & practitioner tools

Role of NRM sector in bushfire preparedness and recovery

This collection brings together evidence on the role NRM organisations play in bushfire recovery.
  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate resilience
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • +1
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Cultural fire and cultural heritage protection in bushfire recovery

Resources and insights on the importance of caring for Country and biocultural values in bushfire recovery and resilience.
  • Climate resilience
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • Cultural fire management
  • +2
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Biodiversity impacts, recovery and restoration from bushfires

This collection explores the impacts of bushfires on biodiversity, and resources to support biodiversity restoration and recovery after bushfires.
  • Nature & Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Threatened ecological communities
  • +5
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Community engagement in bushfire recovery and resilience

Resources and examples of benefits and approaches to community engagement in bushfire recovery and resilience.
  • Climate resilience
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • Emergency management
  • +1
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Bushfire recovery around the regions

Regional NRM organisations partnering to deliver on-ground outcomes

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
  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate resilience
  • Nature & Biodiversity
  • +9

Value of regional planning in emergency response and recovery

Case study of how NRM regional planning was able to inform a rapid response to severe bushfire event in 2019 -20
Case study · 2021 · NSW Local Land Services (LLS)
  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate resilience
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • +4

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
  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate resilience
  • Cultural heritage
  • +7

Building community and landholder fire preparedness

Raising awareness and enabling communities to develop landscape scale fire management plans
Case study · 2024
  • Climate resilience
  • Climate adaptation
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • +3

Recently added resources

Post fire bush regeneration: assisting recovery of weed affected native vegetation

Weed management guidance for the ecological restoration of fire impacted sites.
Fact sheet · 2020 · Australian Association of Bush Regenerators Inc
  • Bush regeneration
  • Weeds
  • Ecological restoration
  • +2

Nature-led Resilience to disasters: The role of regional natural resource management organisations

This poster provides an overview of the role of regional NRM organisations in disaster resilience.
Case study · 2025 · Bek Christensen and Sarah Hoyal
  • Climate resilience
  • Climate adaptation
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • +3

Working with communities after wildfires to strengthen long-term resilience

Outlines the factors contributing to a resilient recovery following the Cudlee Creek wildfire in the Adelaide Hills in 2020.
Webinar · 2023 · Hills & Fleurieu LB
  • Climate resilience
  • Climate adaptation
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • +2

Regional Natural Resource Management Emergency Preparedness Response Planning 2023-2024

Overview of the experience of regional NRM organisations in implementing the Australian Government Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning initiative.
Report · 2025 · NRM Regions Australia
  • Climate resilience
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • Regional NRM planning
  • +2

Healing Country through Wiradjuri and Wolgalu-led cultural land management

This research outlines findings from the first three years of the Bugang Bila, which aims to put Wiradjuri/Wolgalu at the centre of land management on their traditional Country by collaborating with government and non-government NRM agencies. It identifies key factors that can lead to improved collaboration and outcomes for Traditional land managers and healthy Country.
Report · 2025 · Natural Hazards Research Australia
  • Indigenous land & sea management
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • Cultural fire management
  • +2

Wiradjuri-led Bushfire Recovery – women collecting seed

Following the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, the recovery of the natural environment is ongoing. This Murray and Riverina Local Land Services project involving the Wiradjuri people of the Brungle-Tumut Local Aboriginal Land Council highlights recovery activities from a traditional owner perspective. In this video, Wiradjuri ladies are trained in the skill of collecting native plant seeds for sowing.
Video · 2021 · Local Land Services NSW
  • Indigenous land & sea management
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • Cultural heritage
  • +6

Stabilising soils – managing catchment scale flood and fire risk in a productive landscape

Stabilisation of waterways and hydrological systems on-farm utilising nature-based solutions.
Presentation · 2025 · Katherine Allen
  • Climate resilience
  • Climate adaptation
  • Nature-based Solutions
  • +2

Low flammability vegetation as a nature-based solution to reducing fire risk

Exploring nature-based solutions to address fire risk mitigation and providing insights into their potential application in south west WA.
Presentation · 2025 · Linda Metz
  • Climate resilience
  • Climate adaptation
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • +2

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
  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate resilience
  • Cultural heritage
  • +7

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
  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate resilience
  • Nature & Biodiversity
  • +9

Submissions & reports

Submission to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements

NRM RA-led submission outlining the roles of NRM organisations in bushfire recovery with recommendations
Submission · 2020 · Dr Kate Andrews, NRM Regions Australia
  • Bushfire recovery and resilience
  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate resilience
  • +2

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