Monitoring fire and biodiversity – the fire monitoring program of the Department of Sustainability and Environment

Abstract

The interaction between fire and the environment is extremely complex. The Department of Sustainability and is taking a risk-based approach to bushfire management to minimise the impact of major bushfires on human life, property and the environment, and to maintain or improve ecosystem resilience. Since 2006, the Department has been undertaking flora and fauna monitoring and has established several programs including pre and post-fire flora monitoring,