Nestled in the mountains of eastern Australia are fragments of an ancient world. Damp, dark and lush, they are some of the oldest ecosystems on Earth: temperate rainforests that have persisted since the days of supercontinents and dinosaurs. The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia — and the hundreds of rare species that call them home — are the ultimate survivors, clinging to wet, wild patches of a continent that's increasingly developed and dry. But even these forests could not escape the country's unprecedented fire season unscathed. Don't see the graphic above? Click here. Standing barefoot in a shallow stream in Australia's New England National Park, ecologist Mark Graham reaches down and grabs a charred piece of wood that's washed up on a rocky bank. Rain falls from a blue sky through a gap in the dense canopy overhead. "These are the deepest, wettest parts of the whole landscape, pure rainforest," he says. "To see them burning... it was like this dissolution of the biosphere. It
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