Ancient forest fires are a warning for all: David Bowman

David Bowman, he says ancient
forest fires are a warning for all.

More than 72,000 hectares of western Tasmania have been burned by a cluster of bushfires, most of them ignited by a spectacular dry lightning storm that crossed the island on January 13.

The geographic scale of the fires can be seen on the Tasmanian Fire Service website. These fires pose an enormous, ongoing challenge to the fire service, with little immediate prospect of a speedy resolution to this crisis given the absence of soaking rains in the foreseeable future.

Read piece by the Professor of Environmental Change Biology at the University of Tasmania, David Bowman, on The Conversation - “Fires in Tasmania’s ancient forests are a warning for all of us.”