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Education resources for schools

Brochures

PDF Icon Fire and biodiversity in Victoria (PDF - 290 Kb)

PDF Icon Fire and biodiversity in Victoria's parks and forests (PDF - 595 Kb)

PDF Icon Information sheet: Effects of Fire on Victorian Bushland Environments (PDF - 397 Kb)

PDF Icon Information sheet: Fire and Victoria's Parks and Forests (PDF - 378 Kb)

PDF Icon Information sheet: Using Fire to Manage our Parks and Forests (PDF - 365 Kb)

PDF Icon Responding to fire affected wildlife (PDF - 140 KB)


Online resources

Victoria's Biodiversity- Resources for teachers, Resource 1, activities 11 & 12 (VELS 4 & 5) incorporate fire ecology principles.

On Borrowed Time, Learning Resource, has a number activites, for different disciplines, that incorporate fire ecology principles.


Visiting a park

You may like to visit a national park to observe the recovery of the bush. There may be a park near you that has recently had a bushfire or conducted fire ecology research. Visit the Parks Victoria website for more information about your local national park.

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Epicormic buds sprouting after fire, Mt Little Joe 2003.  Photo: Owen Gooding


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