Australia already has the highest rate of species loss of any region in the world, yet the risks suddenly worsened in the spring–summer of 2019–20, with an unprecedented chain of wildfires covering 10 M ha of the nation’s forest and woodland estate. Fires of this scale were unprecedented and not factored into recovery plans for Threatened Species or ecosystem management in general. EMR asks one of Australia’s most pre‐eminent ecologists what can be done to ameliorate the losses and better avoid and respond to such impacts occurring in the future?

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在火势日益加剧的大陆上对澳大利亚动物区系的现状和未来的一些个人思考

澳大利亚已经是世界上任何地区物种丧失率最高的物种，但风险在2019-20春季至夏季突然恶化，史无前例的野火连环覆盖了该国1000万公顷的森林和林地。如此大规模的大火是史无前例的，没有纳入受威胁物种恢复计划或总体生态系统管理之中。EMR询问澳大利亚最杰出的生态学家之一，如何做才能减轻损失，更好地避免和应对未来发生的此类影响？