We used satellite data to create global maps of where and how fires are burning. Fire season lasts two weeks longer than it used to and fires are more intense. But there are regional differences.
- Professor in Biogeography, The University of Melbourne
The end of native timber harvesting in Victoria offers a generational opportunity for First Peoples to care for Forest Country
New research finds the Victorian town of Buchan never experienced catastrophic bushfires, until misguided laws banned the use of burning as a way to control the land.
Indigenous fire management holds the key to a safer, more sustainable future on our flammable continent.
Why rely on unproven technologies when we can store carbon and cut emissions through Country-based and nature-based solutions?
Aboriginal people view so-called wilderness as sick, neglected land. This runs counter to the view of wilderness as pristine and healthy, which underpins non-Indigenous conservation efforts.
Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.
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