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Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund: Respond, Restore, and Build a Resilient Future
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This document provides the overview of the World Wildlife Fund Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund's response and recovery efforts for the 2019-2020 Bushfires in Australia.
Australia: After the bushfires
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This article of the UNESCO Courier focusing on restoring biodiversity and reviving life, shares the story of the effects of 2019-2020 bushfires on the biodiversity in Australia.
2019-20 South Australian Bushfire Recovery Interim Report
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This Report tells the story of the Yorketown, Cudlee Creek, Kangaroo Island and other fires in 2019-2020 and the achievements of the early recovery phase across the four domains of recovery: social, economic, built environment and the natural environment.
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Documents and publications
Remote Indigenous communities across northern Australia face significant natural hazards challenges, particularly the impacts of markedly increasing dry season temperatures and associated wildfire risks, and potentially much more severe cyclonic events.
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This report provides a synthesis and overall outlook for the Australian environment, including detailed content and assessments found in 12 thematic chapters.
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This research investigates the idea of framing climate and environmental change (CEC) as a new type of threat: a hyperthreat.
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'Everyday Stories of Climate Change', is a comic that threads together qualitative research about low-income families' experiences and adaptation to climate change across five countries.
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This scoping review examines communities in low and lower middle-income countries, and their use of renewable energy and flood warning systems.

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