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- - - - Coral Bleaching
      - infectious disease
- - - - he drought's impact is far reaching; food and water available to people and livestock are low, and wildlife have access to even fewer resources. As a result, native species are forced to stray from their natural habitat in search of food and water, increasing the risk to their safety by coming into contact with unfamiliar environments.
    - - Calls to cut south-east Queensland water use as Wivenhoe Dam hits its lowest level in a decade
        
        https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-10/wivenhoe-dam-levels-lowest-in-a-decade-south-east-queensland/13221302?fbclid=IwAR0FdT-dHwFldho_i1JXSm9PK0xjh3CEgNF38KQbE44xvyDOpjYg0c_0RxQ
- - - - The feral European rabbit is one of the most widely distributed and abundant mammals in Australia. It causes severe damage to the natural environment and to agriculture
    - - Where deer density is high, diversity and abundance of plant species is lower. Saplings are commonly destroyed by deer as they rub against them, trample or eat them. Weeds may flourish in areas where deer are not adequately controlled. Deer also assist the spread of weeds into new areas. Deer compete with kangaroos and wallabies for food and generally add to grazing pressure. As hoofed mammals, deer can act as carriers of disease that affect livestock such as cattle and horses. They also contribute to erosion and degrade the water quality in creek and river systems.
    - - Feral camels are causing significant damage to the natural environment as
        well as to social, cultural and economic values across their extensive range
    - - numbers are again very high right across northern Australia causing significant damage to wetlands.
    - - Cane toads were released in North Queensland in 1935 to help control beetles that were damaging sugar cane crops. But they quickly became pests, and later migrated rapidly poisoning native species
        
        no natural predators or diseases that could control them, or keep them in check
    - - Feral horses and donkeys are serious environmental pests, causing erosion and damaging vegetation with their hard hoofs. They damage and foul waterholes, and introduce weeds through seeds carried in their dung, manes and tails. Feral horses and donkeys may also compete for food and water with native animals.
      - In central Australia, feral horses overgraze large areas because they can travel up to 50 kilometres from water in search of food. This can force native wildlife from its favoured habitats. The impact of feral horses and donkeys on native grasses, herbs, shrubs and drinkable water is most pronounced during drought. They can quickly degrade areas close to remote waterholes and natural springs, which during a drought become refuges critical to the survival of many native animals and plants. Without these refuges, native plants and animals may become locally extinct.
      - Feral horses and donkeys also have an impact on the productivity of farming land. Feral horses eat pasture grasses, destroy fences, and during a muster can cause cattle to scatter. They can carry exotic diseases such as equine influenza and African horse sickness, which are serious threats to domestic horses. They can also carry tick fever, which can infect domestic horses and cattle.
    - - Feral pigs are a serious environmental and agricultural pest across Australia. They are found in all states and territories, particularly around wetlands and river systems.
        
        They prey on native animals and plants, dig up large expanses of soil and vegetation in search of food and foul fresh water. Feral pigs will eat many things including small mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, crayfish, eggs, earthworms and other invertebrates, and all parts of plants including the fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs and foliage.
        
        Feral pigs can host animal diseases that can be transmitted to other species. In dirt on their feet and fur, they can also spread plant pathogens such as Phytophthora cinnamomi, which causes plant dieback.
        
        Feral pigs move around to new sites with food and water, and can breed rapidly to recover from control programs or droughts, and the impacts of feral pigs are intensified when their populations are large
    - - The fox threatens the survival of 76 species of native Australian animals
        
        The fox has played a major role in the decline of ground-nesting birds, small to medium sized mammals such as the greater bilby, and reptiles such as the green turtle. While land use change is cited as one of the key reasons for decline in many native species, predation by foxes has also been a significant contributor to native animal decline and continues to undermine recovery efforts for threatened species as the malleefowl, the bridled nail-tail wallaby and the night parrot..
    - - Feral cats threaten the survival of over 100 native species in Australia. They have caused the extinction of some ground-dwelling birds and small to medium-sized mammals. They are a major cause of decline for many land-based endangered animals such as the bilby, bandicoot, bettong and numbat. Many native animals are struggling to survive so reducing the number killed by this introduced predator will allow their populations to grow.
        
        Feral cats can carry infectious diseases which can be transmitted to native animals, domestic livestock and humans.
        
        Feral cats are the same species as domestic cats, however they live and reproduce in the wild and survive by hunting or scavenging. They are found all over Australia in all habitats, including forests, woodlands, grasslands, wetlands and arid areas. The map illustrates the estimated abundance of feral cats across the country.
        
        Feral cats are predominantly solitary and nocturnal, spending most of the day in the safety of a shelter such as a rabbit burrow, log or rock pile. They are carnivores, generally eating small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects depending on their availability.
    - - Predation by dogs can have an impact on remnant populations of endangered animal species. For example, the dingo has been implicated in the extinction of the Tasmanian native hen (Gallinula mortierii) from mainland Australia. It seems endangered species with small populations are more vulnerable to predation by wild dogs than larger populations, which are more resilient.
    - - Feral goats now occur across 28 per cent of Australia. They can be found in all states and territories and on some offshore islands, but are most common in the rocky or hilly semi-arid areas of western New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland
        
        Feral goats have a major effect on native vegetation through soil damage and overgrazing of native herbs, grasses, shrubs and trees. This grazing can cause erosion and prevent regeneration. They foul waterholes and can introduce weeds through seeds carried in their dung. Particularly during droughts, feral goats can compete with native animals and domestic stock for food, water and shelter.
- - - - Bushfires speed up hollow formation, but if they are too hot or too extensive, they catastrophically destroy vegetation and decimate native species. Old-growth forest, especially, may take many centuries to regenerate, and the floral and faunal species mix may never be the same. Controlled, permitted hazard reduction in woodlands and forested habitats should take corridors into account. Burns must be legal, lit only on low fire danger days, and monitored to ensure hollows, corridors, and forests are safely preserved.
      - Scientists fear one of Australia's most endangered marsupials could be at risk on the mainland after bushfires destroyed parts of their habitat and the habitat that is left has become a haven for predators
        
        Four spotted-tailed quolls, which are also endangered, were seen after the Currowan bushfire despite the habitat being almost completely destroyed.
        Katerina Mikac from the University of Wollongong said the marsupials were clever enough to hide underground or outrun a fire because they could cover large distances in a day
    - - common throughout South-East Australia, yet due to clearing of native habitat, exotic plant introduction, predation by introduced species and changing fire patterns as a result of climate change they have been wiped out from much of their Southern and Western range.
        In late October 2019 fierce bushfires started to sweep through New South Wales and Victoria where they continue to burn protected areas the wallaby inhabits. It estimated that 70% of all brush-trailed rock-wallaby habitat has been destroyed. In the aftermath of the fires, in Victoria, ere it was thought to have been hunted to extinction by the early 20th century by settlers who prized its fur and skin, until some who had survived the sport were discovered in the Grampians in 1970, [12] a colony of 13 has been detected in the Grampians National Park while a further 50 are known to exist in the Snowy River National Park.[13
    - - Wombat warrens, networks of interconnecting burrows, are large and complex, and considerably shielded from the above-ground environment. Small mammals are known to use wombat burrows to survive an inferno.
  - - - Blue Mountains
        
        The 2019-2020 Black Summer Bushfires burnt an unprecedented area of land in the Blue Mountains. Four major fires impacted at different times: Gospers Mountain Fire, Ruined Castle Fire, Green Wattle Fire and Erskine Ridge Fire.
        Despite this, large areas of unburnt bush remain, painting a green corridor from west to east, right across the Great Western Highway corridor. Areas of high risk remain around all Blue Mountains villages
        http://www.katoombaleurarfs.org.au/639/black-summer/
- - - - Location of the Hidden Grove Blue Mountains
        
        The Blue Mountains was one of the main areas affected by the 2019-2020 summer bushfires.
        
        Native animals to the area I'm contemplating as main characters:
        Quoll
        Brush-tailed phascogale or sugar glider(leaning)
        Wombat
        Brush-tailed rock wallaby
        Juvenile magpie or Cockatoo
        Koala
        
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        BushFire
        
        the aftermath of fires
        
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        burning of the hidden grove
        
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        animals running/hiding from fire
        
        Fire's starting
        
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        Drought
        
        Drying up water sources:
        waterfalls
        creeks
        water/swimming holes
        
        effects droughts have of rural/remote environments
        
        Water
        
        Climate Change/Great Barrier Reef
        
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        Pollution?
        
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