Generation Genocide
Rock Sheok (Allocasuarina huegeliana) is a fire-sensitive species and when Noongar People burned country, their cooler fires only lapped the edges of the granite outcrops on which these plants thrive. New 'whitefella' land management has brought hotter, more frequent fires that tear across the landscape and sometimes completely cook these fragile ecosystems, killing the plants that live here. It will be some decades before this generation of 'teenagers' (probably 30 years old or more) will be replaced by a new and very slow-growing generation that will emerge from seed in the ash-bed.
Generation Genocide
Rock Sheok (Allocasuarina huegeliana) is a fire-sensitive species and when Noongar People burned country, their cooler fires only lapped the edges of the granite outcrops on which these plants thrive. New 'whitefella' land management has brought hotter, more frequent fires that tear across the landscape and sometimes completely cook these fragile ecosystems, killing the plants that live here. It will be some decades before this generation of 'teenagers' (probably 30 years old or more) will be replaced by a new and very slow-growing generation that will emerge from seed in the ash-bed.