Mile Clarka @ Nature in the Dark 2012

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