Fire and fauna Prof Mike Clarke Department of Zoology
New: Aust Magpie, Flame Robin, Superb Fairy-wren, G. Currawong L. Kookaburra, White-naped Honeyeater, Spotted Pardalote Missing: Eastern Whipbird, Pilotbird, Satin Flycatcher, Eastern Yellow Robin
Summer 1999 – prior to 2005 fire
May 2005 1 month after fire
June 2005 2 months later
Jan 06 9 months later
Jan 2009 3.75 years later
Jan 2011 – 5.8 years
Average area burnt per year (ha)
Scope: Prescribed Burning
Average burning per year over previous 35 years (1.7% per annum)
Burning 5% per year
Save Biodiversity!
“Don’t it always seem to go, That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot…” Joni Mitchell 1970