'Like losing the thylacine': fire burns ancient forest

Updated February 1 2016 - 7:50am, first published January 31 2016 - 10:03pm
Mackenzie fire, Tasmania, January 2016. Photo: The Wilderness Society
Mackenzie fire, Tasmania, January 2016. Photo: The Wilderness Society

ANCIENT alpine ecosystems unique to Tasmania's remote world heritage wilderness, including trees that lived for more than a millennium, have been killed by fires that scientists say are linked to climate change.

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