It is good to know that fires can be beneficial to some plants and animals.

The #bosbranden in Australia not only have caused much damage to nature, they also help certain animals and plants forward, writes Kathryn Teare Ada Lambert, ecologist at the University of New England.
Now that the crisis in forest fires hit Australia is finally decreasing, it is easy to see only what has been lost. More than 11 million hectares of landscape is charred and more than a billion animals died. But it's good to know that fires can be beneficial to some plants and animals. We see fresh green shoots again, because plants and trees run out again. Beetles and other insects make short cuts to the carcases of animals; soon the birds who eat insects will follow.

The forest fires in Australia are also a challenge for these tolerant species. But let's see how life returns to the forests and how it will develop in the coming months.
The science of germination
Of course, forest fires kill countless trees — but many survive too. Most people have seen young, green shoots on the branches of, for example, eucalyptus trees. But how can they recover so quickly?

These plants and animals thrive again after the forest fires in Australia