Indigenous fire management shaped Australian tropical savannas over millennia, until the arrival of Europeans pushed the landscape back into a dangerous, unmanaged state.
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A study of purple-crowned fairy-wrens offers lessons for fire management along waterways in tropical savanna ecosystems.
The El Niño is a reminder that bushfires are part of Australian life. But whether or not this fire season is a bad one, Australia must find a better way to manage bushfires.
Satellite data and traditional know-how combined have drastically reduced fires across northern Australia over the past 20 years.
Two decades of satellite data have allowed us to map fires across the country and identify areas facing high fire risks. Fire activity has increased in several major regions over the past decade.
A new paper explores how a carefully controlled fuel reduction burn killed 17 critically endangered western ringtail possums.
Fire must be allowed to play its natural role.
Indigenous fire management holds the key to a safer, more sustainable future on our flammable continent.
In this era of mega-fires, diverse strategies are urgently needed so we can safely live with fire.
Australia’s largest parrot has just been listed as an endangered species. Here’s why they’re in trouble – but it’s not too late to save them.
The fynbos vegetation that historically clothed the slopes of Table Mountain is highly inflammable. This has been worsened by the spread of alien trees that burn more intensely than the fynbos.
The bushfire royal commission will look at incorporating Aboriginal knowledge into mainstream fire management. But in practice, what does that mean?
Many of the recommendations of previous inquiries and reviews have yet to be implemented. What we need is a better fire and land management strategy – not another royal commission.
Australia devotes countless resources to fighting bushfires, but precious little to examining the main cause - humans.
The convergence of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and virtual reality may offer hope for the way we manage future bushfire disasters.
Feral cats and pigs, mission grass and climate change - in western Arnhem Land, Indigenous rangers are battling many environmental threats. Through painting and performance, they are also telling ‘healthy country’ stories.
We can manage the risks from bushfires far more effectively if we look at the ways different plant species control the the way the fires burn.
Wildfire makes up about 4% of the greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere each year.
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
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Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University, Research Associate at University of New South Wales, Curtin University
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Research associate, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Fire Ecology and Management, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Pro Vice Chancellor, Aboriginal Leadership, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University
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Michael Bird est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
JCU Distinguished Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University
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Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, School of Environment, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor in Biogeography, The University of Melbourne
