From a distance, the white flush looks almost like a line of snow, freshly settled on the mountain slopes. But the white haze that covers these slopes is not snow, it’s dead trees. Dead snow gums, to be precise, Eucalyptus pauciflora.
Experts say snow gums have not evolved to cope with more frequent and more intense bushfires, caused by the global climate crisis. This has resulted in the nature of Australia’s high mountain landscapes changing, and the ecological collapse of snow gum woodlands. And the abrupt decline or change of this ecosystem is happening before our eyes. Read More