The myth that not enough has been done to manage bushland to mitigate bushfire risk has persistedFactcheck: are national parks 'locked up' and more vulnerable to bushfires? To say the fires are due to national parks being locked up would be an incorrect statement. “To say the fires are due to national parks being locked up would be an incorrect statement,” an RFS spokesman says. “Any claim that the Victorian government has locked up national parks is just not true,” Hardman says. “Why are people fixating on national parks when there are so many other landscapes that are bushland which are not national parks?” he says.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2020 18:56 UTC