Ridiculously Cute Baby Animal Alert!
Here are some important fact about wildfires, deforestation, and climate change, which all have an impact on the homes and habitats of animals just like this adorable baby koala saved from Australian bushfires.
According to National Geographic:
🌲 Some of the forests razed in Australia this year have experienced four bushfires in the past 25 years, meaning they’ve had no chance to recover
🌲 They should be burning no more than every 75 to 125 years, so that’s just an extraordinary change to fire regimes
🌲 Mountain ash need to be about 15 to 30 years old before they can produce viable amounts of seed to replace themselves following fire
🌲 The loss of these dominant trees is a significant problem, since they provide vital habitat for threatened animal species such as the sooty owl, the giant burrowing frog, and a fluffy arboreal marsupial called the greater glider
🌲 As the world warms with climate change, the situation in Australia reflects what’s happening in forests globally—from California and Canada to Brazil and Borneo
🌲 Even forests made up of species that thrive on cycles of fire and regrowth are losing resilience in the face of wildfires that are escalating in frequency, severity, and extent
🌲 Over the past 40 years, the length of fire seasons has increased by 20 percent across more than a quarter of the world’s vegetated land surface
What's the solution?
Well, for tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal people in Australia effectively prevented large blazes by reducing fuel, such as dry grasses and leaf litter, with frequent, small, hand-set burns.
Now there are increasing calls for a return to that kind of traditional burning. What do you think?
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