Photographer Paul McIver captures resilience of lyrebirds after Black Summer bushfires

Photojournalist Paul McIver spent months capturing the unfolding disaster of last season’s bushfires in the Snowy Monaro region — from the fearsome pyrocumulonimbus clouds forming over the Monaro plain, to the destruction of delicate alpine forests and the fires descending upon his community in Rocky Hall.

“I first began photographing the fires in August, when there was still snow on the mountains,” Mr McIver said.

‘It’s just incredibly devastating’

On February 1, just one week before widespread rains finally…