Australia’s & Aboriginal’s Fauna/Flora – Impact Report

Resource Description

Australia’s Flora + Fauna and the Aboriginal’s Impact + Relationship with the Land

Intro: Over the past few million years, Australia’s flora and fauna have dramatically changed. While Australia was attached to the super continent, Gondwana, the climate was warm and moist with a dense tropical rainforest sweeping the land. However, many years after Australia broke loose from the super continent the climate dramatically changed which heavily impacted on the distribution, abundance and type of vegetation. The three main causes said to be responsible for this major change in flora was a changing climate, changing soils and the use of fire on a continental scale. As the vegetation changed, this also lead to the dramatic change in fauna along with other factors including human influence. The changes brought about by multiple factors are what make Australia’s flora and fauna so unique.