Landscape flammability expert Philip Zylstra says NSW has seen twice the amount of prescribed burning this decade compared to the last. RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.
Fact Check accepts that Dr Zylstra's claim was essentially referring to prescribed burning in national parks, rather than the whole of NSW.
In order to analyse prescribed burning in national parks only, Dr Zylstra used a national parks map to confine prescribed burns outlined in the NPWS data to park boundaries. Dr Zylstra's analysis showed that in the 10 years to June 30, 2019, 668,191 hectares of NSW national parkland was burned in NSW.
In each other decade in Dr Zylstra's analysis, the area of national parks burned in hazard reduction fires was less than in the 10 years to 2018-19., a senior lecturer in geospatial sciences at RMIT University, to independently analyse the publicly-available NPWS data.
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