Revealed 'monumental' NSW bushfires have burnt 20 of Blue Mountains world heritage area


Exodus from the Blue Mountains Scores flee Australian wildfires clutching heirlooms and pets as

People view smoke from bushfires in the Blue Mountains, which has engulfed Sydney, 100km away. Eastern Australia has suffered a devastating start to the summer fire season.


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The Greater Blue Mountains and World Heritage Area bushfire region covers 7,656,342 hectares, encompassing the Central Tablelands, Greater Sydney and Hunter Natural Resource Management regions. It includes 96 per cent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and 11 per cent of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area.


Australia bushfires 'Mega blaze' destroys homes ahead of heatwave BBC News

The Blue Mountains tops the list of local government areas in NSW with a high bushfire insurance premium, IAG says. Credit: Nick Moir The Blue Mountains region would "compete with some of the.


Australia bushfires 'Mega blaze' destroys homes ahead of heatwave BBC News

The Blue Mountains is a unique world heritage area and also one of the most bush fire prone areas in the World. The population across the district is 75,000 people who live in, or in the vicinity of 27 towns and villages across the Mountains. The local government area covers 143,000 hectares of land in the Greater Sydney Region.


Blue Mountains World Heritage and Bushfire National Parks Association of NSW

The 2019−20 bushfires across Australia have been devastating. Their extent, duration, timing and ferocity has been unprecedented. Here in the Blue Mountains the extent of the fires has greatly exceeded any previous recorded fire seasons. Over 80% of the Blue Mountains National Park has been impacted with 63% partly or fully burnt.


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The Blue Mountains area has faced both bushfires and wet weather activity in the last few years.(ABC News: Ross Byrne). An electrical storm hit the Blue Mountains on Wednesday;


Bushfires in the Blue Mountains

One of the worst affected areas was the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, which encompasses over one million hectares of native bushland in the ranges west of Sydney. It is an area of international significance because of its exceptional floral and faunal biodiversity.


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Thu 16 Jan 2020 11.30 EST At least 80% of the Blue Mountains world heritage area and more than 50% of the Gondwana world heritage rainforests have burned in Australia's ongoing bushfire.


Australian mountain bushfire scene and layers near Katoomba in the Blue Mountains National Park

This season's bushfires could have a 'devastating' impact for some species within the Blue Mountains as ecologists fear more than 80 per cent of the world heritage-listed region may have been lost.


Revealed 'monumental' NSW bushfires have burnt 20 of Blue Mountains world heritage area

Revealed: 'monumental' NSW bushfires have burnt 20% of Blue Mountains world heritage area More than 10% of forest in NSW national parks destroyed by fire this season, with the damage to.


Class action 2013 Blue Mountains bushfires

Blue Mountains bushfires, such as those that have burned in Blackheath, Mt Wilson and the Grose Valley, are a key part of the ecosystem. The eucalyptus trees of the Blue Mountains have evolved to live with fire Bushfires strike the Blue Mountains, a popular escape from Sydney, on a regular basis.


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NSW Bushfires Coronial Inquiry wraps as Blue Mountains locals make last-ditch appeal on back-burn - ABC News News Ticker Bushfire warning Emergency warnings are in place for a fire burning at Junma Dam and All Nations Mine (near Irvinebank) and Innot Hot Springs in QLD. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency


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The Mount Wilson backburn, which the RFS has bundled with the Gospers Mountain Fire in its damage estimates, was lit on December 14 from a point with a history of escaped fires and contrary to the.


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According to Blue Mountain's weather and trail report on Thursday, the sudden (and inaugural this winter) burst of cold that finally arrived this week has helped things somewhat, with 8 trails and.


Blue Mountains bushfires residents recall the devastation on the eve of the anniversary ABC News

On 26 October 2019 lightning struck the drought-stricken region of Gospers Mountain in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area of New South Wales, Australia. This ignited a bushfire which ran for three months to burn-out 838,000 hectares (around 80% of the World Heritage Area) and impact an estimated 140 million reptiles, birds and mammals.


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Blue Mountains residents have gathered to commemorate the first anniversary of the devastating October 2013 bushfires. The tight-knit community this morning assembled to remember the horrors that.