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From Shark Bay to Albany, WA’s famed national parks are experiencing mass plant deaths after the stress of the state’s unusually long, hot and dry summer.

The drive to Currency Creek Arboretum, an hour south of Adelaide, meanders through the picturesque Mt Lofty Ranges. It’s a landscape of quaint sandstone

Playing detective for native trees Help collect evidence about death and recovery. Dead trees are nothing new in the Australian landscape, but last summer was particularly severe. Following weeks of orange haze and thick black smoke caused by bushfires that ravaged the country, an estimated 21% of the total area covered by forests – excluding Tasmania – was burnt. Add to this the ongoing threat of drought, heatwaves, insects and fungal pathogens, and it’s easy to see why the death of native trees is very real problem – and one that is hard to monitor.  Help is at hand, however. Amate...