Climate change forces choices about Victoria's beloved bushland

A bushfire picture from today's Melbourne
 Age illustrating Tom Arup's story.

There will be no choice but to accept permanent changes to Victoria's beloved bushland as climate change worsens, some of the state's leading environmental scientists say.

Accepting those changes could force a rethink of how some areas are protected and restored in order to give Victoria's threatened wildlife species the best chances of survival in warmer conditions.

The need to accept change is one of the main findings of a landmark symposium that drew together research on the pressures global warming is placing on Victoria's unique plants and animals, and what might be done to protect them.

Read Tom Arup’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Changes to Victoria's bush will have to be accepted under global warming: scientists.”