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Climate Change Is Fueling Wildfires Around the World. Can Indigenous Knowledge Help Us Manage Them

Type
Literature
Publication
Ensia
Year Published
2019
Description

The rekindling of traditional fire practice is not just happening in the remote landscapes of the center and north of Australia. In the more populated and rural states in the south and east, Indigenous communities are coming together to revive their traditional fire knowledge, despite generations of their ancestors being prevented from practicing it. Not just in Australia but around the world, indigenous people want to make sure that land burns the right way. And nonindigenous fire management practitioners are slowly warming to the idea.

Geography