This might boggle those unfamiliar with the size of Australia, but they are actually on the same order of magnitude. The area of land under Australia's Nationa

This might boggle those unfamiliar with the size of Australia, but they are actually on the same order of magnitude. The area of land under Australia's National Reserve system of state & federally protected areas is 137m ha. The rainforest coverage in the Amazon basin is "only" four times larger at 550m ha. Both present access challenges due to sheer scale and remoteness. Note that Australia itself is larger again at 769m ha. Notwithstanding which, the Amazon represents a vastly higher level of uncatalogued biodiversity. The Australian locations have a diversity of biome instead, including some that are quite inhospitable to life. Since we're talking bushfires and scale, note that Australia's largest ever fire season (FY1975) burned an estimated 117m ha of land, but in remote locations; this season's fires have burned "only" 11m ha of land, but by affecting densely populated areas the the profile is higher.