This is Australia's forest. I don't care if new trees growing are a solace to anyone, it is wrong to destroy vital habitat. The picture below is of a kangaroo and her baby called a joey.
Land use is extremely important in avoiding a scorched Earth scenario. We must return burnt forests to the production of oxygen and absorption of CO2. That's right, trees are more important as climate crisis mitigators than lumber. There is no "natural" time for trees to be lumbered for timber. Not even when they die. When they die they produce soil along with detritivores. So, when some capitalist wants to know when forests can be harvested for timber, the answer is never. Forest floor litter is mitigated by evapotranspiration. The leaf litter at the base of a forest is wet enough to never burn. The problem of wildfires occurs not because of the natural cycles of the majority of trees, but, because of drought. Wildfires occur because of drought not natural processes of the forest floor.
Habitat and it's fauna are vitally important to a healthy Earth troposphere. The animals that live in their habitat conduct Earth's natural laws of selection. Nature selects species that can balance the natural world. In the USA, Yellowstone National Park is among the best examples of what occurs when human beings assume they know more about Earth than nature does. That would be wrong-headed. There are too many unknowns on the planet as there are knowns.
Protecting species is to protect habitat. Protecting habitat is protecting life on Earth in a sustainable method of natural selection.
To quote the Mandalorian, "It is the way."
By Michael La Page
The Great Barrier Reef (click here) is already in a critical state. Rising sea temperatures are killing corals faster than they can recover. As temperatures continue to increase, more and more of the reef will die, along with the rich variety of life and the AUS$6 billion tourism industry that depend on it.
It is one headline-grabbing example among many. The continued rapid warming of the planet would wipe out many species, even if it were the only change happening. As it is, a sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is already under way as farms replace forests and factory ships overfish the oceans.
The heating of the planet will push many struggling species over the brink. Some will just have no place left to go. For biodiversity, climate change is, in military jargon, a threat multiplier. Worse still, measures to limit warming often don’t take biodiversity into account. Some, such as the push for biofuels, directly harm it.
Yet there is little that is inevitable about what happens next. We might not be able to save all the species under threat, but we can save an awful lot of them. “We could cut the number of extinctions in half,” says John Wiens at the University of Arizona. “I think that’s the biggest cause for optimism.”
But our chances are better if we think more smartly about the links between biodiversity loss and climate change, and tackle both of these issues together. Done right, a rescue plan for nature can be part of a plan for saving humanity from the worst of climate change – and vice versa....
But our chances are better if we think more smartly about the links between biodiversity loss and climate change, and tackle both of these issues together. Done right, a rescue plan for nature can be part of a plan for saving humanity from the worst of climate change – and vice versa....
