AS THE flames of Australia’s worst bush fires in eight years die down,
argument is hotting up over how to prevent such costly fires breaking out
again.
Government scientists and farmers say regular and deliberate burning of New
South Wales’s wild areas would stop fires running rampant. But many
environmental groups are opposed to such burns, saying they would reduce
biodiversity. The NSW government is now feeling the heat from both sides.
“Everyone knows it would make no sense at all to just go along and burn the
broad acres of bush on a regular basis, because that would destroy…
