We need a vision for our environment

Dr. Jack Pascoe, who completed his PhD on Apex Predators in the GBMWHA under the supervision of Dr Rosalie Chapple and the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute in 2011, has written for the Guardian on the need for a vision for our environment, for the species and ecosystems it will support, and how our communities will sit within these environments.

Perhaps what we lack is not a program of land clearing and ramped up fuel reduction burning. Perhaps what we lack, and desperately need, is a vision for our environment, for the species and ecosystems it will support, and how our communities will sit within these environments. Without this vision I fear fuel reduction burning will simply condemn our landscapes to a patchy state of recovery from a series of wildfires and hazard reduction burns.

There’s already a blueprint for how we could remake our landscapes, it’s in our country’s bones. It’s in the stories and sophisticated land management practices of our first peoples.

Read more in the original piece published on the Guardian website:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/21/our-first-peoples-already-have-a-blueprint-to-remake-the-fire-ravaged-land-its-in-our-countrys-bones