mile clarka @ nature in the dark 2012
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Mile Clarka @ Nature in the Dark 2012TRANSCRIPT
Fire and fauna Prof Mike ClarkeDepartment of Zoology
New: Aust Magpie, Flame Robin, Superb Fairy-wren, G. CurrawongL. Kookaburra, White-naped Honeyeater, Spotted Pardalote
Missing: Eastern Whipbird, Pilotbird, Satin Flycatcher, Eastern Yellow Robin
Summer 1999 – prior to 2005 fire
May 20051 month after fire
June 20052 months later
Jan 069 months later
Jan 20093.75 years later
Jan 2011 – 5.8 years
Scope: Prescribed Burning
Average burning per year over previous 35 years(1.7% per annum)
Burning 5% per year
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Save Biodiversity!
“Don’t it always seem to go, That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot…”
Joni Mitchell 1970
