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Australian trees have extremely hard seed pods and require fire to open, it's the evolution of many species in the ecosystem (animals that live in-land are fast
by notaspecialist 7y ago
Australian trees have extremely hard seed pods and require fire to open, it's the evolution of many species in the ecosystem (animals that live in-land are fast moving, slower moving animals live closer to the coast or dig into the ground).
Being told for the last 10 years that you cannot clear land of bush-fire fuel (as one citizen did, and was heavily fined with new ECO laws), a practice done since Aboriginals taught settlers, contributed massively to last year's fires.
The point I'm making is the new ECO laws aren't respecting the reality of Australia's ecosystem, and bush-fires like that are the outcome.
- qtplatypus 7y agoThe head of the NSW Rural Fire Fighters who are responsible for fighting bushfires and doing hazard reduction burns has stated that there have not been any ecological laws that have prevented them from doing burns. What has prevented from from doing burns is warmer winters that has resulted in the window for when they can safely do burns being reduced. I'd like to know what these new eco laws you are referring to and a citation for the story you made reference to about the person getting fined for doing hazard reduction on his own land.