Wildlife recovery spending after Australia's last megafires was 13 times less than the $2.7 billion needed
- Written by: Michelle Ward, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland
James Gourley/AAPFew could forget the devastating megafires that raged across southeast and western Australia during 2019-20. As well as killing people and destroying homes and towns, the fires killed wildlife and burnt up to 96,000km² of animal habitat – an area bigger than Hungary.
Under climate change, megafires will become...
