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 Scientists are asking for help from the public to understand bushfire devastation. “We want birds, insects, green shoots, animal poop, fungus … Even if it’s a tree that has burned to a crisp, that’s still useful,” says Casey Kirchhoff. Photograph: David Crosling/AAP
January 31, 2020
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Australians are being asked to join a mass citizen science program to photograph how the nation’s habitats and wildlife are responding in the wake of the unprecedented bushfire crisis. The scale of the bushfires that have so far burned about 11m hectares across the country has ecologists and scientists in “uncharted territory” as they scramble to gather data to understand the devastation.

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