The retreat of the rainforests Nightcap oak

© 2021 John Pickrell First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of UNSW Press

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Keywords: Aboriginal land management, Australia, Australian ecosystems, Australian wildlife, biodiversity, Black Summer, birds, bushfires, climate change, conservation management, drought, echidnas, endangered species, extinction, Great Barrier Reef, habitat destruction, fire ecology, firefighting, kangaroos, koalas, threatened species, wildfires, wombats