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Flames of extinction : the race to save Australia's threatened wildlife / John Pickrell.

Flames of extinction : the race to save Australia's threatened wildlife / John Pickrell.
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ISBN 9781742237169
1742237169
Author Pickrell, John (author)
Title Flames of extinction : the race to save Australia's threatened wildlife / John Pickrell.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth, 2021.
Description viii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Over Australia's 2019-20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species -- koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus -- are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing climate behind them. In Flames of Extinction, award-winning science writer John Pickrell investigates the effects of the 2019-2020 bushfires on Australian wildlife and ecosystems. Journeying across the firegrounds, Pickrell explores the stories of creatures that escaped the flames,, the wildlife workers who rescued them, and the conservationists, land managers, Aboriginal rangers, ecologists and firefighters on the front line of the climate catastrophe. He also reveals the radical new conservation methods being trialled to save as many species as possible from the very precipice of extinction.=650 \7
Wildfires.
Subjects Wildfires -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
Forest fires -- Environmental aspects
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- History -- 21st century
Wildlife rescue -- Australia
Animals -- Effect of fires on -- Australia
Extinct animals -- Australia
Endangered species -- Australia
Fire ecology -- Australia
Wildfires -- Australia
Wildlife conservation -- Australia
Call number 2021.058
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