Lessons from Top End Indigenous fire management

Keywords: Indigenous ecological knowledge, IEK, Indigenous knowledge, traditional practices, customary burning, innovative, fire management, burning, savanna, carbon farming, carbon abatement, carbon sequestration, Indigenous rangers, carbon projects, Top End, customary practices, Country, healthy country, Traditional Owners

  • Evaluates how Indigenous knowledge has been incorporated into northern Australian fire projects
  • Charts the key methods, processes and protocols for sharing and incorporating Indigenous knowledge into environmental management
  • Presents protocols that can be used to guide the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into fire management and carbon abatement planning nationally
  • Suggests key areas for future research into Indigenous fire knowledge and its incorporation into on-country fire enterprises and fire programs
  • Highlights some of the key aspects of Indigenous peoples’ relationship with fire, as well as the implications of this relationship for wider Australian landscapes and biota

  • Keeping a close eye on a controlled burn.
  • Indigenous rangers manage some of the largest tracts of land in Australia, photo Glenn Campbell.
  • Controlled burn, Jaana Dielenberg.
  • Cool burn through native savanna grasses, photo Jaana Dielenberg.

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