Call for new bushfire policy at Forestry Australia Fire Summit

Friday 19 Jul 2024

 
A leading forestry expert has strongly criticised opponents of prescribed burning in forests and has urged a radical new approach combining traditional Indigenous knowledge and bushfire science to tackle bushfire policy.

Dr Tony Bartlett AFSM, an independent forestry consultant, told a bushfire conference in Melbourne that a quantum shift in thinking and practice was needed to manage climate change impacts on native forests. “The increased frequency of high intensity landscape-scale wildfires is having an impact on forest resilience,” he said in a presentation to the Forestry Australia Fire Summit.

“For forest fire management, we need adaptive and innovative actions drawing from both traditional knowledge and bushfire science.”

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Source: Latrobe Valley Express


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