ROAD TO RECOVERY

WHILE bushfires have naturally been a part of the Australian environment, every bushfire season still has a grave effect on the Australian landscape, native wildlife and its people. Vegetation is destroyed – promoting new growth, however, the natural habitats of wildlife and lives can be lost, leaving people tirelessly working hard to rebuild what they once had. This season has currently claimed 33 lives, more than 1,500 homes and at least 11 million hectares destroyed – an area larger than Germany.

Each state and their National Parks personnel are relentlessly planning and working on the recovery of walking tracks, campsites and infrastructure demolished by the fires and collaboratively working to open their doors to tourism as quickly as possible. Here’s a lowdown on what’s been going on in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

South Australia

Approximately 90,000 hectares of national park land has been destroyed, with many national parks, conservation parks and wilderness protection areas on