hope everyone ok down there.... we are on holiday there from uk in feb 2020, we have already planned route etc, as we are driving sydney to melbourne again, with planned stops at mollymook, narooma and tura beach!!... i am looking for news regards to the princes highway current state, as we see the currowan fire area growing !!??
Constantly updated information on the NSW RFS website and the Victorian CFA site. Advise you download the NSW RFS's excellent Fires Near Me smartphone app.
Great Upload, I enjoyed your informed comments. The scientific community are saying this is the worst drought on record, so infact the worst in 230 years. I wonder how many severe droughts this country has endured over the millennia?
It's oddly hypnotic, watching that video. One of the things about the bush is, is that it can look utterly burnt out but springs back surprisingly fast. The things that concern me, though is that moisture of some sort is needed for seeds to germinate and we have been in drought for a very long time now, and we also need animals to help spread the seeds and add nutrients to the ground. Most of them will be gone. It is advantageous for small patches of bush to burn out and be regenerated from untouched bush close by, but when huge swathes of land are burnt like this it is so much more difficult. Secondly, we are seeing patches of damp creek and even rainforest being burnt out, and rainforest shouldn't be burning. Especially not Gondwana remnants. The situation in incredibly serious and quite frankly the government has no interest. It has no interest in art, or culture, or the environment. It is only interested in siphoning off as much cash as possible, using cheap labour and environmentally acquired resources it does not see as sustainable. We cannot expect them to move away from coal unless we force them to do so. And that means, unfortunately, we are going to have to force them. And, we have the right to use force. When a beautiful young child like Izzy is threatened with the use of force by police officers that we pay taxes for, it becomes ever more clear that the only thing our leaders respect is force. I see no other option. We don't have another 30-40 years to waste trying to persuade people who aren't listening. We just don't.
All true. And we still have to get through January and February. I hope to be able to get back into the forests soon to do some reportage about the post-fire scene. I had been trying to get some camera trap video of Lyrebirds displaying and nesting and have already recorded some good stuff showing a male lyrebird maintaining its display mound but the last breeding season amounted to nothing as far as I could tell. I think it was so dry they'd just abandoned breeding to concentrate on a desperate search for food. Anyway, thanks for the comment and please think about subscribing.
In my whole lifetime I've never seen or even heard of a koala in these forests. Just not their sort of habitat. The native mammal fauna includes brush tails and ringtails, swamp wallabies, grey kangaroos, sugar gliders and the larger gliders, dingoes, wombats, native rodent species, etc. Such a widespread intense fire will take many years to recover from, but a lot of soaking rain is needed and there doesn't seem to be any prospect of that, alas.
@@possm1 oh ok that's really nice to know, i was just assuming based off of this almost certainly outdated distribution map, and the abundance of smooth bark trees that ive always called "manna gums" koalas love them when they get enough water. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala#/media/File%3AKoala_Range.jpg
@@grumpyaustralian6631 They may have been present on the more fertile creek flats along the Clyde river, for eg., but these have been cleared for farming.
@@possm1 I'd just like to say, obviously this is still devastating regardless of weather you have koalas in that area, while we are in this drought and the other animals killed and evacuated from the area wont be back until rain hits which is horrible, koalas just happen to be particularly threatened by these fires hence the concerns, but I dont imagine many of our wombats can outrun bushfire very well either, my condolences go out to everyone and everything affected by this catastrophe.
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Very informative video, thanks mate.
hope everyone ok down there.... we are on holiday there from uk in feb 2020, we have already planned route etc, as we are driving sydney to melbourne again, with planned stops at mollymook, narooma and tura beach!!... i am looking for news regards to the princes highway current state, as we see the currowan fire area growing !!??
Constantly updated information on the NSW RFS website and the Victorian CFA site. Advise you download the NSW RFS's excellent Fires Near Me smartphone app.
This will be your route
Great Upload, I enjoyed your informed comments.
The scientific community are saying this is the worst drought on record, so infact the worst in 230 years.
I wonder how many severe droughts this country has endured over the millennia?
Are they building a new bridge in the bay?
Yes.
It's oddly hypnotic, watching that video. One of the things about the bush is, is that it can look utterly burnt out but springs back surprisingly fast. The things that concern me, though is that moisture of some sort is needed for seeds to germinate and we have been in drought for a very long time now, and we also need animals to help spread the seeds and add nutrients to the ground. Most of them will be gone. It is advantageous for small patches of bush to burn out and be regenerated from untouched bush close by, but when huge swathes of land are burnt like this it is so much more difficult. Secondly, we are seeing patches of damp creek and even rainforest being burnt out, and rainforest shouldn't be burning. Especially not Gondwana remnants. The situation in incredibly serious and quite frankly the government has no interest. It has no interest in art, or culture, or the environment. It is only interested in siphoning off as much cash as possible, using cheap labour and environmentally acquired resources it does not see as sustainable. We cannot expect them to move away from coal unless we force them to do so. And that means, unfortunately, we are going to have to force them. And, we have the right to use force. When a beautiful young child like Izzy is threatened with the use of force by police officers that we pay taxes for, it becomes ever more clear that the only thing our leaders respect is force. I see no other option. We don't have another 30-40 years to waste trying to persuade people who aren't listening. We just don't.
All true. And we still have to get through January and February. I hope to be able to get back into the forests soon to do some reportage about the post-fire scene.
I had been trying to get some camera trap video of Lyrebirds displaying and nesting and have already recorded some good stuff showing a male lyrebird maintaining its display mound but the last breeding season amounted to nothing as far as I could tell. I think it was so dry they'd just abandoned breeding to concentrate on a desperate search for food.
Anyway, thanks for the comment and please think about subscribing.
Look at how many smoothbarks there are, I hope some of the koalas made it out yellow gum and the like are their favourite trees.
In my whole lifetime I've never seen or even heard of a koala in these forests. Just not their sort of habitat. The native mammal fauna includes brush tails and ringtails, swamp wallabies, grey kangaroos, sugar gliders and the larger gliders, dingoes, wombats, native rodent species, etc. Such a widespread intense fire will take many years to recover from, but a lot of soaking rain is needed and there doesn't seem to be any prospect of that, alas.
@@possm1 oh ok that's really nice to know, i was just assuming based off of this almost certainly outdated distribution map, and the abundance of smooth bark trees that ive always called "manna gums" koalas love them when they get enough water.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala#/media/File%3AKoala_Range.jpg
@@grumpyaustralian6631 They may have been present on the more fertile creek flats along the Clyde river, for eg., but these have been cleared for farming.
@@possm1 I'd just like to say, obviously this is still devastating regardless of weather you have koalas in that area, while we are in this drought and the other animals killed and evacuated from the area wont be back until rain hits which is horrible, koalas just happen to be particularly threatened by these fires hence the concerns, but I dont imagine many of our wombats can outrun bushfire very well either, my condolences go out to everyone and everything affected by this catastrophe.