A study has
found more than 25 per cent of trees across 7000 hectares of jarrah
forest in the Perth Hills, Western Australia have died after the drought and
heatwaves experienced in 2010-11.
Similar numbers of trees died in arid areas of Queensland in
response to the 2003-07 drought, and there are similar reports from around the
world
The high death rate of trees is attributed to lower
rainfalls, higher temperatures and extreme weather events.
Read the ABC Rural
story - “Thousands of trees killed by drought and extreme heatwaves.”
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