Huge fire fronts burn the Simpson Desert
Lightning strikes have started fires right across Queensland’s west since September and in the far-west large swathes of grazing country have been burnt out; including 800,000 hectares (80 per cent) of the Simpson Desert National Park.
Christine Crafter is the operations manager for the rangelands in the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and she said that about 80 per cent of the park has been burnt at this stage.