Thursday,
9 May 2024
Balancing act – the greater glider and fire

FIRE is a tricky thing – at one extreme it consumes everything in its path, at the other it can be a patchy burn and trickle through a forest.

There is no happy medium; even low intensity cool burns can have devastating effects on forest wildlife.

The Greater Glider, Australia’s largest gliding marsupial, has been known to occur in the Strathbogie Forest for many decades and in recent years gove...

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