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Cultural burning isn't just important to Indigenous culture—it's essential to Australia's disaster management

Last month, Australia's newly appointed minister for emergency management, Senator Jenny McAllister, and Senator Tony Sheldon, special envoy for disaster recovery, took part in a cultural burn outside ...
Mongabay

Study: More than half of Australia’s clean energy mines lie on Indigenous land

The global energy transition has increased demand for the minerals needed in the production of batteries, solar panels and other renewable energy technology. In a new study, researchers found that ...
T&D

Vegetation Management: Learning from the Wisdom of Our Ancestors

For thousands of years, Indigenous people around the world have been living sustainably and in harmony with the environment. They have developed unique traditional land and vegetation management ...
PBS

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Sanjayan travels to Australia to see the effects of climate change. Changing Planet returns to six vulnerable habitats from Greenland’s frozen wilderness to the forests of Cambodia. Sanjayan visits ...
The Daily Californian

Indigenous stewardship is the blueprint for climate resilience

Long before wildfire season became a national crisis, Indigenous communities were already working with fire as a tool for sustainable land management. For generations, the Karuk, Yurok and Hoopa ...
The Conversation

Cultural burning isn’t just important to Indigenous culture – it’s essential to Australia’s disaster management

Bhiamie Williamson leads the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Program at Monash University. He is also a Director of the environmental charity Country Needs People. Last month, Australia’s ...