Rebuilding Australia: Our Animals and Land - Trailer
Agricultural Scientist Chris Russell speaks to Australia’s most eminent fire fighters, soils experts, fire behaviouralists and agricultural advisers to assess what damage the 2020 bushfires have caused to our land and animals. He asks whether we could or should have pre-empted th ...Show more
Bushfire - cause and effect
Should we have predicted the severity 2020 bushfires? Former NSW Fire and Rescue Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins says that they had predicted it. Greg explains to host Chris Russell why the 2020 fires different from the bushfires of previous years, the cause and effect of these ty ...Show more
Studying the behaviours of bushfires
Fire looks random but there is a scientific dedication to understanding how it behaves. Host Chris Russell speaks with leading Fire Scientist and former forest fire-fighter, Dr Thomas Duff, about his studies into how bushfires behave in hot, dry climates. Dr Duff explains how we ...Show more
Recovery from the soil upwards
What can we learn about bushfires and the management of our land from our Indigenous people, who have managed bushfire with bespoke methodology for 40,000 years? Soil Scientist Phillip Mulvey discusses the use of fire as a land management technique in Australia with host Chris R ...Show more
Life after the bushfires for our animals
Our animals and wildlife have been devastated by the fires, and for those that have survived, the aftermath of having dead and injured animals on our lands also poses a significant risk. Host Chris Russell speaks with former Commonwealth Inspector General of Biosecurity and NSW C ...Show more