“It’s so important to apply that right fire for right country, so you can maintain the right balance.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aboriginal rangers and traditional owners conduct burns in the Katiti-Petermann Indigenous Protected Area, in the remote desert country near the Western Australia and Northern Territory border. In northern Australia, Indigenous land ownership is widespread. Caring for country and ranger programs in protected areas has delivered a degree of autonomy to traditional owners to walk the country, burning according to seasonal need and cultural knowledge. Indigenous fire management involves “cool” fires in targeted areas during the early dry season, between March and July. “These ‘right way’ fire days are getting fewer and fire behaviour is changing along the same lines as over east.

Source: The Guardian January 18, 2020 18:56 UTC