With an estimated 480 million-plus mammals, birds and reptiles now killed or destroyed during these current bushfires it may be time to revamp the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act especially the parts about not removing dead wood or dead trees that the scientific committee says benefits those species.
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That benefit appears to have failed with green misguided policy and green political pressure. Maybe even the committee has failed those species by falsehood and entrapment, not to mention the devastated, emotional and cruel impact on the human population .
Back in the 2003 Bushfire Inquiry submission No 289 clearly said it all https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=bushfires/inquiry/subs/sub289.pdf . Alan Harris gave a good insight, explanation, maybe a remedy and especially a future warning.
At the end of this current devastation best fire management must prevail over politics. Then I suppose it will be best flood management, best water management, best power management and down the list we go in priority.
All the while the climate will be never-ending in changing to warmer or cooler as history shows.
"A Sunburnt Country" - yes it is.
