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Bushfire and Fury: Calls for the Sending of Additional US Firefighting Resources to Australia Cited International Arrangement
This blog post was originally published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School. To Australian eyes, the deplaning of US firefighters in Sydney in January 2020 felt like watching the Avengers arrive at a battle scene. Our battle scene this summer has looked apocalyptic, with the …
The Summer of 2019/2020, Australian Koalas Are Caught between a Firestorm and Political Expediency
In August 2019 the world woke to images of blackened bush, injured wildlife and uncontrolled infernos as Australia’s East Coast was consumed by unprecedented bushfires. Around Sydney and the state of New South Wales, 12 million acres of sensitive forest habitat has been ravaged by fire. The impacts on Australia’s …
Desperate to Help Desperate Koalas? The Government Won’t. Here’s What Will.
Most everyone worldwide knows that koalas and other wildlife have been injured, orphaned and starved in the recent Australian bushfires. But what can be done to help them now? Most Australians, and others, who care about wildlife, have no firsthand experience of the complexities which state and federal governments in …
