Fire in Australia is a symptom of a degraded ecosystem (commentary)

Mongabay
Feb 28, 2020, 1:24 pm256 ptsTrending
Fire is not natural to Australia, as incomprehensible as that may seem today. When humans first landed on the northern shores it was a very different continent. Most of Australia was a biodiverse rainforest inhabited by dozens, if not hundreds, of species of marsupial, reptilian, and avarian megafauna, such as…

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