A group of scientists warns WA's approach to prescribed burns aimed at preventing the threat from bushfires is putting rare plant and animal species at risk.
A prescribed burn in the South West which decimated one of only two numbat habitats left in Western Australia was also raised.Climate change increases riskWest Australian authorities have used prescribed burning to mitigate the severity of bushfires for more than half a century.
The study did not make any recommendations about fire management policies or targets for the Warren Region or other forest regions of South West WA.During the hearing, the 200,000-hectare target was pinpointed as one of the key concerns with the prescribed burn program, as was the method of burning with aerial ignition.
Dr Young told the hearing there needed to be an independent review, frustrated by what she called a “tin ear” to their concerns.“I’m hoping if there is an independent review that we could find common ground in the community for better protecting , agreeing where there has to be compromise to perhaps biodiversity sacrifice to some degree.DBCA executive director of regional and fire management services Jason Foster told the hearing its program was not target-driven, but risk-driven.
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