BUSHFIRE SEASON 2023 OFFICIALLY BEGINS
MORE THAN A MILLION ACRES ALREADY
The threat of intense bushfires looms over New South Wales as record spring temperatures and high winds fan the flames of more than 60 blazes already burning in Australia’s most populous state, authorities have warned.
Several cities along the east coast saw record spring temperatures Tuesday, according to Australia’s Bureau of Meterology (BOM). Sydney, the NSW capital, was expected to record its hottest September day ever Wednesday, with BOM forecasting a high of 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).
Senior BOM meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said NSW was experiencing “record September heat, dangerous fire weather conditions and gusty winds,” in a video posted Wednesday to X, formerly known as Twitter.
As of Wednesday afternoon, 65 fires were burning across NSW, nearly a third of which were uncontained, the state’s Rural Fire Service (NSWRFS) said in a statement on Facebook.
“It’s the worst risk we’ve faced since the Black Summer fires of 2019,” NSWRFS commissioner Rob Rogers said Tuesday, according to public broadcaster ABC, referring to the 2019-2020 bushfire season that killed dozens of people and a billion animals as it burned through more than 10 million hectares.
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The warnings for NSW come as bushfires also burn in Queensland, Tasmania and parts of central Australia near the tourist town of Tennant Creek. As of Monday, the Tennant Creek fire had burned more than a million hectares of land in the Northern Territory, according to authorities.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER
CNN reports 1 billion animals but other reports state The Black Summer bushfires killed as many as 3 billion animals and trillions of invertebrates.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023: Until just days ago we thought all the koalas living on the Fig Tree Reservebefore the devastating Black Summer Bushfiresof 2019/20 perished.
THE FIG TREE RESERVE IS ONE OF 4 PROJECTS…
SAVE OUR WOODLANDS, INC. was established to pay landholders, in perpetuity, to conserve, enhance and re-establish native woodlands on their land, and for those woodlands to be managed in the best possible way and preserved for generations to come.
Only 15% of the woodlands in NSW remain, the rest have been bulldozed.
THANKS to YOUR donations and support of our $10 per month program, we have secured FOUR significant sections of land, including one we refer to as the Fig Tree Reserve.
We have NOT yet FULLY funded the Fig Tree Reserve and our most recent discovery of koalas on the Reserve makes your continued financial support all the more important. It’s imperative that we fully fund this project – and as soon as possible.
Save Our Woodlands is an environmentally conscious group of volunteers dedicated to preserving threatened birds, animals and ecosystems in the woodlands of New South Wales, Australia.
Only 15% of our woodlands remain, the rest has been cleared for agriculture.
Save Our Woodlands Inc. secures and protects woodlands in NSW and pays landholders, in perpetuity, to conserve, enhance and re-establish native woodlands on THEIR land, and to manage these woodlands, so they are maintained.
BUT we need YOUR help. Together we can bring about change. Please consider donating.
People tend to think that woodlands are “just bush,” consequently, over 85% of the native woodlands in New South Wales, Australia have been replaced by agriculture.
Donate $10 per month & help protect critical habitats. By doing so YOU will prevent further species from extinction.
Our work is only possible with your support.
BUT THERE IS HOPE
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCEAn article published March 30, 2022 by Eos, written by Meghie Rodrigues states: "From Australia to Chile and all the way to Greece and Portugal, wildfires have put the international community on alert in recent years. Some fires have reached...
VIDEO: DOGS HELPING KOALAS
7 KOALAS FOUND ALIVE AFTER DEVASTATING WILDFIRES Two dogs, specially trained to sniff out koala scat and find any nearby surviving koalas were recently utilized after devastating wildfires. Finding seven koalas alive amid the destruction in just two days is an...
INCLUDING KOALA
OVER 100 NSW ANIMAL SPECIES THREATENED - INCLUDING KOALAAccording to the New South Wales Government’s Saving our Species program, there are currently 100 priority animal species in NSW that are listed as threatened under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016....
