Explainer: how effective is bushfire hazard reduction on Australia's fires?

Australia’s bushfire crisis started much earlier than normal in August 2019, with thousands of fires in Queensland and New South Wales.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service in NSW says
bushfire hazard reduction occurred across more than
 139,000 hectares in 2018 and 2019.

Despite the evidence a claim persists that a major contributing factor of Australia’s devastating fire season – and the deaths, loss of homes and environmental devastation they have caused – is not climate change but a conspiracy by environmentalists to “lock up” national parks and prevent hazard reduction activities such as prescribed burning and clearing of the forest floor.

On Saturday the prime minister, Scott Morrison, said after visiting fire grounds: “The most constant issue that has been raised with me has been the issue of managing fuel loads in national parks.”

Read the story from The Guardian by Graeme Readfearn - “Explainer: how effective is bushfire hazard reduction on Australia's fires?”