Change prescribed burns practice in WA forests
Change prescribed burns practice in WA forests
The issue
Why save native forests and woodlands from logging and clearing if the Western Australian government departments are going to inappropriately and destructively burn them?
Forests are more than the trees. Conservationists and concerned citizens are scathing of the decision to hold prescribed burns in spring; during the Noongar season of Kambarang, the season of birth; during the nesting and breeding seasons. Young animals and birds, nestlings, don't have much chance to survive a hot burn fire.
Current prescribed burns practices in WA have recently proven to be overtly destructive# and risk the natural environment. Larger scale burning appears planned to meet quotas that are set in government department city offices and meeting rooms. Burning by spreadsheet. Implementation of the evolving science in agile response to climate change and applying traditional aboriginal cultural knowledge is better best practice.
Please, Western Australian Minister for the Environment, ensure and activate up-to-date best practices for bushfire mitigation that includes a moratorium on large scale burning of native forests and woodland in spring time.
Ngala kaadatj nidja Noongar Boodja. This petition acknowledges the traditional custodians of language, land, knowledge, and culture throughout the South West of Western Australia - Noongar Boodja.
Fire management of bushland and forests with local indigenous knowledge informs local ecological understanding supplemented with cool burns that will help reduce bushfire risk and protect the animals.
Critically endangered Western Ringtail possums are especially vulnerable to bushfires. "They can’t hop away (like kangaroos), they can’t move fast."*
Endangered Baudin’s black cockatoos, which are only found in WA’s southwest, are under threat by the current scheduling and methodology of prescribed burning in spring time/ Kambarang.
Related articles:
# https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-02/prescribed-burn-decimates-numbat-habitat-wa/100110960
* https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2011/12/endangered-species-at-risk-from-wa-bushfires
https://theconversation.com/the-burn-legacy-why-the-science-on-hazard-reduction-is-contested-132083
Image: Calyptorhynchus baudinii, White-Tailed Black Cockatoo by Herbert Goodchild (1916)
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The issue
Why save native forests and woodlands from logging and clearing if the Western Australian government departments are going to inappropriately and destructively burn them?
Forests are more than the trees. Conservationists and concerned citizens are scathing of the decision to hold prescribed burns in spring; during the Noongar season of Kambarang, the season of birth; during the nesting and breeding seasons. Young animals and birds, nestlings, don't have much chance to survive a hot burn fire.
Current prescribed burns practices in WA have recently proven to be overtly destructive# and risk the natural environment. Larger scale burning appears planned to meet quotas that are set in government department city offices and meeting rooms. Burning by spreadsheet. Implementation of the evolving science in agile response to climate change and applying traditional aboriginal cultural knowledge is better best practice.
Please, Western Australian Minister for the Environment, ensure and activate up-to-date best practices for bushfire mitigation that includes a moratorium on large scale burning of native forests and woodland in spring time.
Ngala kaadatj nidja Noongar Boodja. This petition acknowledges the traditional custodians of language, land, knowledge, and culture throughout the South West of Western Australia - Noongar Boodja.
Fire management of bushland and forests with local indigenous knowledge informs local ecological understanding supplemented with cool burns that will help reduce bushfire risk and protect the animals.
Critically endangered Western Ringtail possums are especially vulnerable to bushfires. "They can’t hop away (like kangaroos), they can’t move fast."*
Endangered Baudin’s black cockatoos, which are only found in WA’s southwest, are under threat by the current scheduling and methodology of prescribed burning in spring time/ Kambarang.
Related articles:
# https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-02/prescribed-burn-decimates-numbat-habitat-wa/100110960
* https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2011/12/endangered-species-at-risk-from-wa-bushfires
https://theconversation.com/the-burn-legacy-why-the-science-on-hazard-reduction-is-contested-132083
Image: Calyptorhynchus baudinii, White-Tailed Black Cockatoo by Herbert Goodchild (1916)
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Petition created on 28 September 2021