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= = // **'Black Saturday Facts!'** //

 **420,000 square kilometres of forest and farms burned.**

**2,600 kilometres of fire breaks were dozed**

**820 kilometres of rivers, streams were burned and affected by the fires**

** Here is a video of a Fireman giving a Koala a drink ** ** of water on Black Saturday **
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Up to **60%** of **Leadbeater** possums lost their habitat in the recent **Victorian Bushfire**, known as the **Black Saturday.** 1) The Leadbeater's Possum likes to nest in the hollows of Old trees and there are very few of these old trees due to massive bushfires (Wild fires) in **1939.** Re-growth of trees since the fires of **1939 need 200 years** to become suitable nesting sites for the Possums. So as these "old-growth" trees collapse there is no suitable age trees "maturing" into possible nesting sites. Without nests, the possums are unable to survive. 2) **75%** of the Possums habitat range is timber-production forest, with the tall, straight trees in the forests favoured by Leadbeater's Possum, also favoured for the production of timber and woodchips.
 * There is 2 main problems facing the Leadbeater's Possum**

'Ground Parrot'


The **Ground Parrot** have suffered a setback after **B****ush Fires** destroyed some of their **habitat** over the **Black Saturday** weekend. **The fire burnt 6000 hectares** where the birds lived. There are only **200** **Ground Parrots** in the world since the Bush Fire. The **Ground Parrot is a distinctive**, slender parrot which is so shy and elusive that it is not usually seen unless it is flushed out from cover.

'Barred Galaxias'


Immediately after the **2009 Black Saturday bushfires**, **Barred Galaxias** were temporarily taken into captivity until stream conditions improved.

The **Barred Galaxias** occurs in cool, clear, upland streams with stony or sandy substrates. Little is known of its ecology due to its **highly threatened status** and **small population size.**

4. **Australia** is mostly a hot and dry climate. Some of the causes of the **black Saturday** fires are drought, strong winds and extreme temperatures. `

Please note that we know of no plant that is completely non-flammable. The Society cannot guarantee that the species listed in the article will not burn they are simply more resistant than many other species.

Certain native flora in **Australia** have evolved to rely on bushfires as a means of reproduction and fire events are an interwoven and an essential part of the ecology of the continent. In some eucalypt and Banksia species for example, fire causes seed pods to open, which allows them to germinate. Fire also encourages the growth of new grassland plants. Other species have adapted to recover quickly from fire.

For many thousands of years, Indigenous people have used fire for a variety of purposes. These included the encouragement of grasslands for hunting purposes and the clearing of tracks through **dense vegetation**.

6. The causes of the Black Saturday fire were So, I think the Lorax try to tell us to stop using too much electricity.
 * fallen of clashing power-lines
 * cigarett butts
 * major drought
 * climate change

7. Our Question is we want to find out more about sam the koala Sam the Koala survivor the black saturday fires but then died on 6 August 2009. Sam Koala is from the forests of Mirboo North, Victoria Australia She became known when a video's and photographs of her being rescued by a firefighter were distributed on the internet and through the media during the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfire.

5.Healesville Sanctuary saw the effects of Black Saturday Some staff lost their homes the Sanctuary itself was under threat and many animals were evacuated. The Vet team was trying to treat all the fire affected animals. now because of the bushfires the Species that already endangered were put under even more pressure to survive by these bushfires. the Helmeted Honeyeater and Leadbeaters Possums were both affected by the fires and we were close to losing these species forever!!.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(koala) http://www.zoo.org.au/HealesvilleSanctuary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healesville_Sanctuary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires