Fires in Tasmania's ancient forests are a warning for all of us
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
Pencil pines are found nowhere else in the world, and are extremely sensitive to fire. brewbooks/Flickr, CC BY-SAMore than 72,000 hectares of western Tasmania have been burned by a cluster of bushfires, most of them ignited by a spectacular dry lightning storm that crossed the island on January 13.
The geographic scale of the fires can be seen on...







