Good Fire in the Northern Rivers

Fire has shaped the forests, heathlands and wetlands of the Northern Rivers
for millions of years, and many of the region’s plants and animals depend on it.
Good Fire is fire put back into the landscape deliberately — at the right
scale, season and frequency — to restore habitat structure, protect
threatened species and reduce the risk of severe bushfire. Ecologists, Aboriginal organisations, government agencies, councils, private landholders and the Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium plan, carry out and learn from that work across the region.

The map above shows more than 50 Good Fire projects across the Byron,
Lismore, Kyogle, Richmond Valley, Tweed and Ballina local government areas,
running over two decades. They range from long-running ecological burn programs
on private land, council reserves and national parks, to cultural burns led with
Traditional Custodians, to fire restoration plans, community workshops and
professional development for land managers. Much of this work supports habitat
for threatened species such as the Koala and Glossy Black-Cockatoo, and a range
of endangered ecological communities including Subtropical Floodplain Forest and
the Byron Bay Dwarf Graminoid Clay Heath.

Select any point on the map to see what a project involves, who is leading
it, which species and communities it is focused on, and how far along it is. You
can also browse every project as a list.