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New green grasses grow among burnt trees.

A man sits in a lab in front of a microscope

Blue lights shine inside a seed vault

A man wearing a hat and khaki shirt involved with seed collecting

"We may see a lot of regeneration over time and it could be between 12 and 24 months before we really have a gauge on any levels of decline in any given population."

A man throws wildflower seeds

"There are likely going to be plant communities that are going to struggle as that climate does change, so there's a lot of research and different trials being done around the country to understand what those impacts might be, where those impacts might be,"
he said.

A hand holding some native berries

"Over the tens of thousands of years on country, they understand change far more than we do so there's a lot of learnings that we need to take away from Indigenous experience."

"The effects of these bushfires has been so profound and it's been talked about in many Aboriginal communities and all of those Aboriginal communities feel very deeply their obligation to help with this recovery because they see their country in distress."
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