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1/Thinking of #trees #peat #carbon and #nature and #fires. When are Victorians (without hysterics @theage ) to be made fully aware of the State #auslaws over fines in State Parks for picking up a rock, walking off track and so on. @DanielAndrewsMP/2
2/As it is now there are hundreds of shooting licensed people walking off track. Hundreds of thousands of feral deer, xrabbits,x pigs (latter two a food, anti #poverty source that cannot be culled by shooters) already damaging #native wildlife.Protecting #Indigenous locations/3
3/ @DanielAndrewsMP is key but to lock up (by fines) large areas is #segregation and discrimination. To lock up but then ok if you pay — is a cynical misuse of power. It would be good to hear from #Indigenous Victoria as we already know the value of the birthing trees was/4
The #RegentHoneyeater is one of Australia’s most #CriticallyEndangered birds. There are <350 birds left in the wild. For >20y, Taronga has been #ConservationBreeding an insurance population. Since 2008, >300 birds have been released to bolster wild populations. #ScienceWeek 
#RegentHoneyeaters are in decline due to threats from #habitatloss and degradation. #Drought, #bushfire, competition, and now even the precariously small size of the remaining population all pose risks to the species’ survival.
Our team of #RegentHoneyeater keepers are experts in #ConservationBreeding these amazing birds. Here specialist keeper Kara Stevens explains our progress at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo.
#Argentina #ElMaitén #Chabut #Fire #Bushfire
According to media reports, hundreds of residents had to be evacuated on Tuesday (February 9th) due to a forest fire near the village of El Maitén in the province of Chabut.
According to media reports, hundreds of residents had to be evacuated on Tuesday (February 9th) due to a forest fire near the village of El Maitén in the province of Chabut.
The communities of El Lago Puelo, El Hoyo, El Maiten and Cholila are particularly affected. The fire is still spreading and has not yet been brought under control.
#Brazil #Brasilia #Amazonas #Bushfire
The number of forest fires in Brazil reached a new ten-year high in 2020. In the past year, there were over 222,000 forest fires, as the Brazilian space agency Inpe announced after evaluating satellite images.
The number of forest fires in Brazil reached a new ten-year high in 2020. In the past year, there were over 222,000 forest fires, as the Brazilian space agency Inpe announced after evaluating satellite images.
This corresponds to an increase of 12.7 percent compared to the previous year. The agency counted more than 103,000 fires in the Amazon rainforest, an increase of 16 percent from 2019. Under President Jair Bolsonaro,
who has been in office since January 2019 and is considered a notorious climate skeptic, the destruction of the rainforest in Brazil has increased dramatically. Environmental requirements were weakened under Bolsonaro.
#Australia #Mandurah #Bushfire
Firefighters were sent to two bushfires as Mandurah south of Perth woke up to its hottest day in December, hitting 31C by 9am local time, one of them along one of the city's main roads.
Firefighters were sent to two bushfires as Mandurah south of Perth woke up to its hottest day in December, hitting 31C by 9am local time, one of them along one of the city's main roads.
On the south side of Old Coast Road in Erskine, just south of Halls Head, at about 1 pm local time this afternoon, helicopters were seen dousing the fire for around an hour.
A bushfire alert was given, with residents warned of heavy smoke in the area. The fire's trigger is still unclear. And a bushfire warning was also released for parts of Coodanup, south of the area, just before 3.30pm.
Farmers are still waiting for bushfire loan applications to be assessed. #abc730 @lucethoughts #bushfires #auspol abc.net.au/news/2020-05-1…
Coronavirus has slowed the #bushfire recovery effort, but authorities promise no-one will be left behind. #abc730 @lucethoughts #coronavirus abc.net.au/news/2020-04-1…
“I've been waiting for this government clean up. Fortunately, they said they'll do it but with this whole thing going on, there's now a little bit of a delay. They reckon this week, they'll get cleaned up.” – Max Gordon-Hall, who lost his Batlow home in the fires #abc730
“We've got communities that are being compounded by disasters, emergencies, disruptions, for quite a long period of time now and there's no doubt that those communities are hurting.” – Shane Fitzsimmons, @rfscommissioner and new NSW Resilience Commissioner #abc730 #coronavirus
215 passengers from the #RubyPrincess #cruiseship have now tested positive for #coronavirus, with two deaths. @FarrellPF and @aljmcdonald look at how far the virus has spread from the ship and talk to some of the passengers. #abc730 #COVID19Aus abc.net.au/news/2020-03-3…
“I felt nauseous a few times on and off and had a few temperatures. I am an asthmatic and I have a lung problem … And then the next day got the results to say I was positive.” - June Hardimon, #RubyPrincess passenger. #abc730 #coronavirus #COVID19Aus
The day before the #RubyPrincess docked, June Hardimon’s daughter received an email from the ship saying: “Ship full of healthy guests and crew. There are no #coronavirus cases onboard.” #abc730 #COVID19Aus
Couple who lost everything shocked at being denied #bushfire assistance. #abc730 @lucethoughts
abc.net.au/news/2020-03-1…
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“I lost everything. I lost every photograph I’ve ever had. I lost everything I’ve ever had. Everything. I just have nothing from 57 years of life.” - Marilyn Mills, Cobargo, NSW. #abc730 #bushfire
“The funding and resourcing for the RFS has never been better. We still enjoy record funding today. And our levels of training, our equipment, our protective clothing, all those sorts of things have never been better.” - Shane Fitzsimmons, NSW @rfscommissioner #abc730 #bushfires
Scott Morrison’s Deputy PM today in the @australian whines that “it really annoys me that I think states have been let off the hook largely this summer”. Here’s a few things that annoy me, about the recent bushfires...
@australian It really annoys me that, as we learned at Senate #estimates this week, Scott Morrison was warned “on multiple occasions” about the risk the bushfires posed, but he did nothing.
@australian It really annoys me that, for four years before the bushfires, Scott Morrison ignored pleas for more funding for water bombing. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
'Absolute gold dust': Veterans helping #bushfire victims rebuild their lives. #abc730 @AngeDonnellan abc.net.au/news/2020-02-2…
@AngeDonnellan The recovery effort from the summer’s #bushfires is likely to take years, and the Army Reserve is playing a big role in the clean-up and rebuild. @TeamRubiconAus has also launched into action, a volunteer organisation made up mostly of veterans. #abc730
@AngeDonnellan @TeamRubiconAus “It’s had an incredible toll on me. I think physically, I’m just exhausted. I’m so fatigued it’s starting to affect me cognitively now and emotionally it’s just torn my heart out.” - Adam Weinert, former soldier who lost everything in the Adelaide Hills bushfires #abc730
I'd like to remind you that we're only at the beginning of 2020 and in less than two months, a lot of things happened around the world, especially in China with the #Coronavirus !
I'm gonna give three other examples:
1: The attack in #Germany.
2: Ex-candidate to #Paris town hall in France @BGriveaux who's sending some videos of ... his fucking Dick to a foreigner.
3: The explosions of anti-Semitism acts almost everywhere in the world !
1: The attack in #Germany.
2: Ex-candidate to #Paris town hall in France @BGriveaux who's sending some videos of ... his fucking Dick to a foreigner.
3: The explosions of anti-Semitism acts almost everywhere in the world !
I can also say that #Bushfire in #Australia is still current !
Reviewing 18 years of #Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service GFAS #opendata for SE Australia shows January 2020 total #bushfire emissions to be highest since 2003 with record activity from #NSWbushfires #victoriabushfires & #CanberraFires. atmosphere.copernicus.eu
@CopernicusECMWF @ECMWF @CopernicusEU @CopernicusEMS @CopernicusLand @NASAEarth @BOM_au @bnhcrc @KCLwildfire_EO @Pierre_Markuse Daily total fire radiative power for Australia, NSW & ACT from 1 Jan to 1 Feb 2020 shows significant recent increase in #NSWfires & #CanberraFires activity above 2003-2019 average (or '03 fires for ACT) #Copernicus #AustralianFires
@CopernicusECMWF @ECMWF @CopernicusEU @CopernicusEMS @CopernicusLand @NASAEarth @BOM_au @bnhcrc @KCLwildfire_EO @Pierre_Markuse Latest analyses from #Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/ show extent of increased #NSWfires #CanberraFires activity & transport of aerosol/carbon monoxide across Tasman Sea to South Pacific Ocean
THREAD: 🐨💚🐨💚🐨#KoalasNotCoal 🐨💚🐨💚🐨
Glad to see concerted effort to ensure wildlife that have survived #AustralianBushfires also survive in the aftermath. I❤️#OperationRockWallaby
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cc: @GretaThunberg @ProfTerryHughes @BindiIrwin @HamillHimself
Glad to see concerted effort to ensure wildlife that have survived #AustralianBushfires also survive in the aftermath. I❤️#OperationRockWallaby
abcnews.go.com/US/australian-…
cc: @GretaThunberg @ProfTerryHughes @BindiIrwin @HamillHimself
@GretaThunberg @ProfTerryHughes @BindiIrwin @HamillHimself @luckytran @bethsawin @leahstokes @buiviethien @KribBKK @martinfredras @schipper_lisa @AlexandriaV2005 @ap4ca At home, and abroad, people have been moved by the plight of our gorgeous Australian wildlife and are reaching out to help. Because … hello… what could be more adorable than this??
(Sadly, all these joeys are orphans from the #AustralianBushfiresDisaster.)
(Sadly, all these joeys are orphans from the #AustralianBushfiresDisaster.)
@GretaThunberg @ProfTerryHughes @BindiIrwin @HamillHimself @luckytran @bethsawin @leahstokes @buiviethien @KribBKK @martinfredras @schipper_lisa @AlexandriaV2005 @ap4ca @ExtinctionR @XRebellionAus @MikeHudema @EricHolthaus @chandlerpowell9 @ClimateReality @AlongsideWild @Law4ClimateAus @DocsEnvAus @SameeraSavarala Make no mistake: this is a massive ecological disaster that may push many species to extinction. In Victoria, one of the states most ravaged by #AustralianBushfiresDisaster, look at the cases reported to @wildlife_vic in December. Yes – that’s for ONE MONTH!
//Thread// Here’s a snapshot of some of the key ways we are currently supporting people caught up in the fire emergencies in NSW, VIC, SA and WA:
◾ Supporting people at 35 evacuation and recovery centres in #NSW, #VIC and #SA.
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◾ Supporting people at 35 evacuation and recovery centres in #NSW, #VIC and #SA.
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◾ Delivering 10 pallets of water and 640 food packs to #Mallacoota.
◾ Coordinating 600-800 food hampers, along with water pallets, hygiene items and pet supplies for rapid distribution from East Sale.
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◾ Coordinating 600-800 food hampers, along with water pallets, hygiene items and pet supplies for rapid distribution from East Sale.
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◾ Distributing satellite phones to communities cut off in East #Gippsland.
◾ Deploying six additional trained personnel to support the 14 already on the ground in Mallacoota.
◾ Providing psychological first aid, registration services and telephone wellbeing checks.
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◾ Deploying six additional trained personnel to support the 14 already on the ground in Mallacoota.
◾ Providing psychological first aid, registration services and telephone wellbeing checks.
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🔥The #bushfirecrisis in #Australia is no joke🔥
#Mallacoota THREAD
These arresting images are from residents of the small town of #Mallacoota at 10.30AM!!!! as they huddled on a wharf and watched flames come towards them from multiple fronts.
cc: @GretaThunberg
#Mallacoota THREAD
These arresting images are from residents of the small town of #Mallacoota at 10.30AM!!!! as they huddled on a wharf and watched flames come towards them from multiple fronts.
cc: @GretaThunberg
@GretaThunberg @AlexandriaV2005 @ClimateKristin @SameeraSavarala @EricHolthaus @MikeHudema @MichaelEMann @ap4ca @350Australia @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe #Mallacoota is a small town of about 4000 people in the state of #Victoria. There's one road in/out of town but no-one could use it to evacuate. Everyone was ordered to the town wharf to wait out the #bushfire, sitting ready in life jackets.
@GretaThunberg @AlexandriaV2005 @ClimateKristin @SameeraSavarala @EricHolthaus @MikeHudema @MichaelEMann @ap4ca @350Australia @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @AlanaCraigen @SaleemulHuq @schipper_lisa @jamisonervin @Jamie_Margolin @jean_hinchliffe @havenruthie @ScheuerJo @martinfredras @billmckibben Here's the aerial view of the #bushfiresVIC raging in that part of #Australia on #NewYearsEve!
cc: @RKalapurakal
cc: @RKalapurakal
Nationals @DarrenChesterMP (Gippsland) on BBC on #bushfire emergency "Whether they are worse in years to come is a debateable point I suppose. One of the challenges we have is trying to reduce fuel loads in the months leading up to the summer period"
I call bullshit #Auspol 1/10
I call bullshit #Auspol 1/10
Factcheck: Bushfires in Victoria becoming worse:
climatecouncil.org.au/resources/vicb…
1. "Extreme fire weather has increased since the 1970s in the east and south of Australia, including Victoria, with the fire season length extending from October to March." 2/10
climatecouncil.org.au/resources/vicb…
1. "Extreme fire weather has increased since the 1970s in the east and south of Australia, including Victoria, with the fire season length extending from October to March." 2/10
2. "Climate change is now making hot days hotter, and heatwaves longer and more frequent. Drought conditions have been increasing in Australia’s southeast." 3/10
🔴(Thread) How to explore the #NSWbushfires 🔥 yourself? Use the #EOBrowser to search recent images in the affected areas. When you've found a #bushfire, export a true color image such as this one. ➡️apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?la… #NSWbushfires #RemoteSensing #OpenData #scicomm 1/6
Once you have done that, you can use the False color (Urban) visualization to go further, peek through the smoke and detect hot spots with possible active fires like in this image here. It also makes the burn scar more visible. ➡️ apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?la… 2/6
Additionally you can then use the SWIR visualization to even better show the burned areas, which show up in reddish tones. Take a look at this image. ➡️ apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?la… 3/6
With the #bushfires still ongoing, it is clear that we are in the middle of a historic event, that will change the way we manage fire in the environment.
A few people have asked me for an explainer - so here is a thread from a bushfire protection planning perspective:
A few people have asked me for an explainer - so here is a thread from a bushfire protection planning perspective:
2. As a scientist I am mostly focused on the practical problems that we have encountered, and how we can solve these and then anticipate the next set.
I have worked in the aftermath of two major fire events, and will be working in the aftermath of this one.
I have worked in the aftermath of two major fire events, and will be working in the aftermath of this one.
The Canberra #bushfires saw a major investment in infrastructure focused on early attack - upgrades to 70km of fire trails, ridge-top water supply tanks and supply ponds for aerial units.
These worked quite well in allowing more aggressive early control.
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These worked quite well in allowing more aggressive early control.
aurecongroup.com/projects/gover…
Several #Australia states with above average daily #bushfire activity during its hottest day on record. #NSWfires have been above average for several weeks & continue producing large amounts of smoke in #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service forecasts atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/ae…
@CopernicusECMWF @ECMWF @CopernicusEU @CopernicusEMS @bnhcrc @BOM_au @nswfire @WMO @EUinAus @Pierre_Markuse @annamaria_84 @Myebra12 @TimCurran8 @ozjimbob @DrHoneyAir @EmmersonKathryn @AtmosJennyF @rrbuchholz @NSWRFS @nswfire @Rafacereceda @adamvaughan_uk @pepcanadell @readfearn @bberwyn @themadstone @blkahn @AntjeInness @VHPeuch @RichardJEngelen
Comparing several weeks of daily total emissions from #NSWbushfires↙️ against those from all #Australia #bushfires↘️ shows how unusual & devastating they have been for the state based on #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service GFAS data confluence.ecmwf.int/display/CKB/CA… #NSWfires
@CopernicusECMWF @ECMWF @CopernicusEU @CopernicusEMS @CopernicusLand @WMO @BOM_au @bnhcrc @BushfireHub @NSWRFS Total estimated #bushfire emissions from #NewSouthWales between 1 Jan & 10 Dec 2019 have been clearly the highest in 17 years of GFAS data going back to 2003 while Australia total is fairly average #NSWfires #NSWbushfires #nswisburning
@CopernicusECMWF @ECMWF @CopernicusEU @CopernicusEMS @CopernicusLand @WMO @BOM_au @bnhcrc @BushfireHub @NSWRFS cc @Myebra12 @TimCurran8 @ozjimbob @tas_firecentre @EmmersonKathryn @rrbuchholz @doylesweather @BushfireHub @DrCEriksen @Taraustralis @centrewildfires @KCLwildfire_EO @Rafacereceda @adamvaughan_uk @jonathanwatts @avoiland @themadstone @ClaireKnox18 @nswfire @Pierre_Markuse
“I have been fighting fires since 1972. There's been nothing like this before. We've lost nearly three times as many homes in New South Wales as the worst previous year in 2013 and we're not even really into summer.” Greg Mullin #TheDrum
“It's the most disgusting, catastrophic fire I've ever been involved with. When you're stopped in the shopping centre by a couple that has lost everything, you soon find out you need to cry on their shoulder as much as they do on yours.” David West #TheDrum #bushfiresNSW
“Unfortunately, I am one of 680-odd people and families that everything has changed a lot for. We're just processing what's happened at the moment. That's all that you can do.” Kim McDonald lost her home in fires #bushfiresNSW #TheDrum
Charting daily total intensity of #NSWbushfires since 1 Sept with #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service GFAS data confluence.ecmwf.int/display/CKB/CA… shows significant increase on 7 November & anticipating more on the 8th based on #AquaMODIS 🛰️ imagery go.nasa.gov/2NwhyUt
@CopernicusECMWF @ECMWF @CopernicusEU @CopernicusEMS @NASAEarth @WMO @EUinAus @BOM_au @CSIRO @bnhcrc Comparing the total estimated FRP of #NSWbushfires between 1 September and 7 November from 2003 to 2019 reveals the current activity to be at a scale not seen in at least the last 17 years.
