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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsBy Sam Johnston
Interest in Aboriginal fire knowledge has been high since last summer’s terrible bushfires. One initiative shows the huge potential benefits of this ancient practice – not just in Australia, but globally.
The International Savanna Fire Management Initiative (ISFMI) is taking the fire management techniques of indigenous northern Austral…
By Bhiamie Williamson, Jessica Weir, and Vanessa Cavangh
How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and animals?
The fact is, the experience of Aboriginal peoples in…
By Zena Cumpston, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
In the wake of devastating bushfires across the country, and with the prospect of losing a billion animals and some entire species, transformational change is required in the way we interact with this land.
Australia’s First Peoples have honed and employed holistic land management pr…
This study uncovers the potential of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) from the perspective of indigenous communities in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, and explores how TEK helps them to observe and respond to local climate change. The results indicated that these communities have observed a significant increase in temperature, with uncertain weather a…
By Rohan Fisher and Jon Altman
The tropical savannas of northern Australia are among the most fire-prone regions in the world. On average, they account for 70% of the area affected by fire each year in Australia.
But effective fire management over the past 20 years has reduced the annual average area burned – an area larger than Tasmania. Th…
By Lynette Russell, Professor and Director, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre
As bushfires take lives and destroy forests, animals, farms and homes across eastern and southern Australia, some are asking whether precious native habitats can be restored, and the country made safe in an era of climate change.
Professor Lynette Russell, director of the…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…