What impact does the fire in Australia have on the ecological environment?

Destroy plants, reduce surface coverage, produce gases such as carbon dioxide, increase the greenhouse effect, destroy the ozone layer, increase surface soil erosion, reduce infiltration, and lead to drought and precipitation reduction.

If the hot and dry weather is worse than before, there will be more dangerous fires. For example, in 2009, the heat wave in South Australia and the jungle fire on Black Saturday occurred at the same time, resulting in 173 deaths.

Main influence

1, positive impact

Specific Australian native flora depends on jungle fires to reproduce, and fires often occur alternately, which has become an important part of Australian ecology. For some eucalyptus and bank trees, fire can split the seeds of plants so that they can take root and sprout. The fire has also promoted the formation of new vegetation, and other species can quickly recover from the losses caused by the fire.

For thousands of years, Australian aborigines have used wildfires to create many benefits for themselves, such as clearing vegetation to open up land.

2. Negative effects

Major fire cyclones will be named after the date that caused serious losses, such as "Ash Wednesday Fire". If the hot and dry weather is worse than before, there will be more dangerous fires. For example, in 2009, the heat wave in South Australia and the jungle fire on Black Saturday occurred at the same time, resulting in 173 deaths.

3. Animal death

On July 28th, 2020, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released a report, which showed that the jungle fire in Australia occurred from 20 19 to 2020, causing nearly 3 billion animals to die or be displaced.