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Australia's wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change
Recent research published in Nature by the University of Melbourne and the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Corporation reconstructs the past 1,000 years of vegetation, fire, and erosion in East Gippsland's Croajingolong National Park. The findings provide crucial historical context for southeastern Australia's severe wildfire crisis, directly connecting the current ecological challenges to changes in land-use practices that began during the colonial era.