A National Parks and Wildlife worker walks down a bush track through thick smoke during a hazard reduction burn in Sydney in July 2017


Hazard reduction burning reduces the leaf litter and undergrowth load in an area on public bush land which leads to less intense fires in the case of a summer bush fire. Hazard reduction burns are conducted across the state during the cooler months of the year


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Location: Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia
Photo credit: © Stephen Dwyer / Alamy / Afripics
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