How would you cope if your home was destroyed by fire? Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season impacted roughly 3 billion animals, excluding invertebrates. Millions of hectares of bushland were burnt. The impacts were too vast for professional scientists alone to record, and so the Environment Recovery Project was created.
Chantelle and songwriter Zoe Elliot visit creator Casey Kirchhoff to find why she and a team from UNSW set up the project on iNaturalist. We also ask, what happened when those same fires hit her property and her home?
Casey’s home, one year post fire
The data from this project is important for decades to come and will paint a more complete picture of which species are bouncing back, and which are not.
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