are environmentalists to blame for wildfires australia?
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A volunteer firefighter has posted an emotional tirade blaming environmentalists for the fires raging across Australia. Tyson Smith says "enviros" are responsible for the devastation across New South Wales and Queensland.
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Hot, dry weather combined with ongoing drought and strong winds have created the perfect conditions for fire to spread quickly. Bushfires can originate from both human activity and natural causes - with lightning being the predominant natural source.
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This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia's history, with at least 15 people killed, hundreds of homes destroyed and millions of acres burned. And summer is far from over. ... The hot, dry conditions that have fueled the fires are nothing new in Australia. Here's why this fire season has been so calamitous.
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Bushfires and grassfires are common throughout Australia. ... Indigenous Australians have long used fire as a land management tool and it continues to be used to clear land for agricultural purposes and to protect properties from intense, uncontrolled fires.
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Australia's continuing bushfire crisis has taken an enormous toll on wildlife, with huge numbers of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and other species killed. The ecologist Chris Dickman has estimated more than a billion animals have died around the country – a figure that excludes fish, frogs, bats and insects.
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Estimates of the number of animals killed by the fires range from hundreds of millions to more than 1 billion. Volunteers and crews from Australia's National Parks and Wildlife Service have been doing what they can to help some of the kangaroos, koalas, lizards, and birds that can be rescued and treated.
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About 12.35 million acres of land have burned across Australia, according to the Associated Press.
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Other major conflagrations include the 1851 Black Thursday bushfires, the 2006 December bushfires, the 1974-75 fires that affected 15% of Australia, and the ongoing 2019–20 bushfires. In January 2020, it was estimated that over 1.25 billion animals have died in the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season.
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A 2008 study found that in Australia about 85% of fires were triggered by human activity - this includes arson, but also carelessness or recklessness. According to Australia's National Centre for Research in Bushfire and Arson, 13% of bushfires every year are deliberate and 37% are suspicious.
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Australia has always experienced bushfires - it has a "fire season". But this year they are a lot worse than normal. Fires are usually caused by lightning strikes or accidentally by a spark - but some fires are also started deliberately.
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The fire south of Canberra is still out of control and has already burned more than 20% of the territory's landscape. However, the fires did not reach the capital's southern suburbs. Hot and windy conditions are expected to last through the weekend.
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Other major conflagrations include the 1851 Black Thursday bushfires, the 2006 December bushfires, the 1974–75 fires that affected 15% of Australia, and the ongoing 2019–20 bushfires. In January 2020, it was estimated that over 1.25 billion animals have died in the 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season.
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More than 20% of Australia's forests burned during the summer's bushfire catastrophe, a proportion scientists believe is unprecedented globally, according to new research.
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The Australian bushfires may cost the tourism industry $4.5 billion as Americans, Chinese, Brits and other holidayers stop traveling there. News of mass evacuations, burnt-out communities, dead wildlife and thick smoke haze beamed around the world have taken their toll says the tourism industry.
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(CNN) The fires in Australia have been burning for months, consuming nearly 18 million acres of land, causing thousands to evacuate and killing potentially millions of animals. They're showing minimal signs of slowing down.
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February has brought much-needed rain to the state, where fires have burned about 13.3 million acres of land. Fire officials in Australia are celebrating a landmark moment, saying that for the first time in what has been a horrendous wildfire season, every fire in hard-hit New South Wales is now under control.