Cases / Law, regulation and treaties · Australia · 2019–2020
2019–20 bushfires burned 88,000 ha of mountain ash forest again
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Nature's voice · report
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Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer fires burned about 24 million hectares. Mountain ash forests, which regenerate from seed, burned again over 88,000 hectares, and aircraft scattered about 4.5 tonnes of seed in 2020.
What?
The 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires burned about 24 million hectares across Australia. Mongabay
Where?
Australia, mountain ash forests Mongabay
When?
2019–2020 Mongabay
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
- Seed-regenerating mountain ash forests — 88,000 hectares burned again Mongabay
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Mountain ash regenerates from seed; aircraft scattered about 4.5 tonnes of seed in 2020. Mongabay
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What happened
The record, in order.
Mongabay reported that Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer fires burned about 24 million hectares.
Mongabay reported that 88,000 hectares of mountain ash forest, which regenerates from seed, burned again, and that aircraft scattered about 4.5 tonnes of seed in 2020.
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Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: in an earlier study, a second fire killed 97% of alpine ash seedlings (2013).
- None on record The sources reviewed do not say how much of the 88,000 hectares has regenerated since 2020.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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Press and investigations
- As Australia faces new fire reality, forest restoration tactics reevaluatedMongabay · 2022-02-14