Fauna and fire: Balancing risk with biodiversity

摘要

Fire is a part of the south-western Australian landscape and many native plants, animals and ecosystems respond to and recover from fire with some level of flexibility and adaptability. However, large and intense bushfires have the potential to have long-lasting impacts on biodiversity, so land managers in Western Australia are continually learning and improving methods to minimise the impacts. Native Western Australian animals depend on their environment for food, water, shelter and space to live and reproduce. However, fire is an extremely effective force in not only destroying and recreating these resources but changing the patterns, places and times that they occur.