Impacts on ecosystems

Sustainable ecosystems

• Ecosystems that are diverse and are able to provide the needs of the organisms living there over a long period of time are Sustainable ecosystems. They are sustainable because they are maintained without being used up or destroyed.
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• Caption: Sustainable ecosysems

Traditional use of fire

• Fire cause rapid changes in ecosystems. Fire has been an important part of Australian ecosystems since before humans lived on the continent. In large areas of Australian the plants are adapted to fire.
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• Caption: Traditional use of fire
• Caption: Traditional use of fire

Fuel reduction burning

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• ​​​​​​Many people in Australia are afraid of fire and want to prevent fire. However when there is long time between fires. When an intense fire goes through an area many of the native animals are incinerated and plants are killed.

Fire monitoring technology

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• Different parts of Australia have different times of the year when fires are mostly likely to occur. These times are known as the Fire season. In southern Australia the 2001-2002 fire season was a bad one and following it, Australian scientists and government agencies developed a new fire-monitoring system.