Fighting Fire with Fire: Combining traditional and modern burning techniques | ABC Australia

Four years ago a huge bushfire devastated half of K'Gari or Fraser Island off the Queensland coast.
It's the world's biggest sand island and one of its natural wonders.
Since then the traditional owners, the Butchulla people have been working with authorities to incorporate cultural burning into modern fire management.
Landline’s Michael Rennie reports.
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[@georgenecopprimerenecopprimi]

Great story, such intelligent use of fire, would love to see that cultural burning and cultural acknowledgement in land management nationally on all parks

[@matteobombonato5840]

LOVE THIS ... LOVE k'gari

[@stuartkcalvin]

I love Land Line.

[@eugenio1542]

Great story and good news for marrying both environmental and cultural symbiosis 🤠☝️❤️🌍🇦🇺

[@yusufsayed1583]

❤

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

Indigenous communities all around the world have been managing fire prone areas for centuries (eg Amazon?, Canada, usa, Southern Africa, Oz, NZ? etc) - we should be learning from ALL indigenous peoples, taking into account local conditions. But it would be interesting & beneficial to find out what each part of the world have in common, what they do differently, and what new things we can learn from each other.

[@lcthen1690]

Finally, disconnected modern people begin to embrace the understanding of respect the land, the local spirits who are the custodian and caretaker of the land. It is a full circle after 200n years of ignorance. Modernity and tradition working hands in hand. This is the beginning of hope in a wonderful country.

[@user-qg5vv4iu4p]

You don't have to worry about the clearing that's done illegally or with a permit all for a $$$.. these blokes doing this for what the land and animals need

[@user-qg5vv4iu4p]

Need ground cover also for the life in the undergrowth

[@raclark2730]

These fires are beneficial for botanic biodiversity and easier for wildlife to evade. The is no undergrowth and reduced recovery after larger fires. It is a choice of the two simple as that.