Australia has always had bushfires, the result of being the driest inhabited continent on earth combined with high temperatures. Its indigenous people, who predate European colonization by some 40,000 years, learned to manage and mitigate fire risk through specific knowledge of local ecosystems and carefully controlled burnings. As Australia suffers through drought, heatwaves and devastating bushfires this summer, practitioners of indigenous fire management report greater interest in their work than ever before. Australia was colonized by the British in 1788, with settlers systematically working to decimate the existing indigenous population through violence.
How Australia’s Indigenous Experts Could Help Australia Deal With Devastating Wildfires
Aarti Betigeri, Time: World
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 9:57am
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