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After the bushfires

In a special series of reports, the Age of Extinction examines the impact of 2019/20's devastating summer bushfires on Australia's plants and animals – and asks if the country's biodiversity can ever truly recover

31 July 2020

  • Burning embers cover the ground as firefighters battle against bushfires around the town of Nowra, New South Wales on December 31, 2019.

    Australia's 'black summer' bushfires showed the impact of human-wrought change

    Tim Flannery
    Non-native predators and pests, forestry and farming mean our recovery is faltering. Here’s what we need to do

30 July 2020

  • Patrick Manley, Manly, New South Wales

    Life and death: what readers in Australia are seeing post-bushfires

  • A supplied image obtained on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, shows two Glossy Black-Cockatoos. Conservations and scientists fear the impact of unprecedented bushfires on Australian plants and animals will be catastrophic. (AAP Image/Supplied by BirdLife Australia, Dean Ingwersen) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

    Fledgling 0601: the baby cockatoo that rose from the ashes of Australia's bushfires

29 July 2020

  • Bob Semmens checks for birds in one of the burnt coast forests where he has been conducting surveys for decades.

    Australia after the bushfires

    Wildfires swept through Australia’s forests on an unimaginable scale a few short months ago, causing widespread destruction. The Guardian followed the path of the fires to see how the affected landscapes are faring

28 July 2020

  • Australia bush fire, kangaroo and joey in a burnt forest, on Kangaroo Island, southwest of Adelaide / bushfires

    Almost 3 billion animals affected by Australian bushfires, report shows

    Exclusive: Bushfires ‘one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history’, say scientists
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