Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to new ...

For millennia, First Nations people have shaped Australian ecosystems through the purposeful and skillful use of fire. This cultural burning is an important way for Aboriginal people to connect to and ...

Indigenous burning practices in Australia once halved shrub cover, reducing available fuels and limiting wildfire intensity for thousands of years, but the removal of these practices following ...

Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage's Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia's forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people.

The NSW government has released its first Cultural Fire Strategy, which commits to removing barriers that have hampered cultural burning across the state. The strategy was created in response to the ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Aynsley O’Neill with Amy Cardinal Christianson, a senior fire advisor with the Indigenous ...

How can a desert burn? Australia’s vast deserts aren’t just sand dunes – they’re often dotted with flammable spinifex grass hummocks. When heavy rains fall, grass grows quickly before drying out. That ...

Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people.