Jacey Roche Cerda

INTRODUCTION Megafires (>100,000 acres) have emerged as a growing threat to biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection worldwide, and 2020 proved to be particularly devastating for megafire impacts on biodiversity. In Australia, in the summer of 2019/2020, the Black Summer fires, encompassing approximately 30–40 million hectares (75–99 million acres), detrimentally impacted over 3 billion animals (Dickman, 2021; Filkov et al., 2020; van Eeden et al., 2020; Ward et al., 2020).

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Ahjond S Garmestani, Craig R Allen, Craig Anthony Arnold, and Lance H Gunderson, ‘Introduction Social-Ecological Resilience and Law’ in Ahjond S Garmestani and Craig R Allen, Social-Ecological Resilience and Law (Columbia University Press 2014) 1.