A bushfire emergency warning for communities in the shire of Nannup in Western Australia’s southwest has been downgraded to a watch and act alert, with residents told it could still pose a threat to lives and homes. The Parks and Wildlife Service warning is in place for people in areas bounded by Cundinup-Kirup Road and…

The New South Wales (NSW) government has referred a damning report on its own handling of Black Summer bushfire recovery grants to the state’s corruption watchdog, after threats of a referral from the opposition. A report by the NSW auditor-general revealed former deputy premier John Barilaro’s office intervened in the program and inexplicably created a…

An increased number of potoroos—a rabbit-sized kangaroo—has been detected in the Barry Mountains, a bushfire impacted area in Victoria, as the endangered marsupial shows signs of recovery after the Black Summer bushfires destroyed over 70 percent of its habitat. In Dec. 2021, a remote camera monitoring survey conducted in the area by the government’s Bushfire…

A University of Sydney and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s report released on the impacts of the Black Summer fires from 2019 to 2020 has found the fires cost the Australian agriculture sector billions of dollars. The Fire on the Farm report (pdf), released, Dec. 13, estimated the bushfires fires— which burnt up…