Tasmania's fire service says "challenging ... known as the enchanted forest. It's a moss forest and it's quite wet and it seems to have survived. Further away the fire impact is more substantial ...

Tasmania is one of those hotspots, and Mr Callaghan has just completed an 11-day moss photography tour of the island. “There's about 800 species in Tasmania, so it's really special,” he said.

Right to information documents have revealed that parcels of native forest that could soon be available for logging in Tasmania contain vast swathes of "old growth" forest and threatened species.