How Indigenous fire management practices could protect bushland | Australian Story
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2020
- Passed on through the generations, could Indigenous cultural burning save Australia's landscape from another catastrophic bushfire season?
When Victor Steffensen saw horrific bushfires breaking out across large parts of Australia this summer, it was no surprise to him.
The amount of vegetation on the landscape - and the type of vegetation - looked to him like a time bomb waiting to go off.
He believes we can look to the past to prevent this happening in the future.
As the face of the cultural burning movement, Victor says one of the answers may lie with the fire management techniques practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years.
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Great story. Love to see these fellas getting the recognition they deserve. Are we wise enough to listen and learn?
Pascoe's just been exposed as a fraud - feeling abit silly are we ?
I've just read Victor's book "Fire Country" and it stunned me...
I bloody loved watching this. Can we NOW please give more recognition to the WISDOM of our traditional land owners?!
Same. Makes me want to learn more
Pascoe has now been exposed as a fraud.
I don't know why I'm feeling proud seeing those two old fellas in their PhD regalia. But I am.
I cried. I'm so proud to have seen this.
This is a beautiful story and one that should ignite hope for every human who cares about culture and Country here in Australia.
amen. i live in canberra, where the smoke from the fires sat for weeks...it was harrowing. knowing that what we were breathing in and the ash in our eyes was that of the beautiful bush and animals from an area we would long to see in the summer. now coastal trips are marred by the blackness and bareness of the bush. this knowledge is so important, being passed over more generations than westerners could probably imagine. there is so much to learn from indigenous people, particularly in australia. we desperately need their help with the state of the planet, and this country right now...
I like to think of this more as land management than just fire management. Now we just need to get our Governments on board.
why is this not standard operating procedure in all states is madness.we need a full time and annual cultural burning team. victors work is priceless
"Read his book,"Fire Country," Gave me more of an understanding of Aboriginal life, and how they see the land .
California could learn a lot from this......
one day our politicians will swallow their pride and recognise that we are gifted with the most richest culture on earth. Not to just recognise our First Nations people in a time of crisis but to speak of them in a proud way and to honour their culture and all that they have to share with all of Australia. thank you Australian Story for highlighting this story.
What an amazing man Victor thank you we all need to look after country
Thank you to our First Nations Peoples that know better and do better! Those training programs for Cultural Burning need to be videoed and training send through to Firies throughout the world. As well as constant training 🙏🏻
Großartige Dokumentation... was Victor tut, sollte Standard sein.
Make this mandatory practice
For grassy woodland in north QLD, as depicted.
thankyou for broadcasting this. I have just finished reading Fire Country. I'm ready for "praction".
This should be a national priority in Australia. Get enough people trained and knowledge passed down to prevent these huge bush fires. All this is totallly preventable.
I love watching this news channel because it teaches me something new because this is history I am watching for sure ☺☺☺🍺🍹🍷
I have always thought living in the bush if we got our indigenous elders involved in our controlled burns would be a heck of alot better. We were evacuated in 18 coz of a 'controlled' burn that was started after we had severe wind warnings and were all told to have any burns extinguished. It's scary as it went out of control very quickly not only because of weather but because it hadn't had a proper burn for many years. Bring back indigenous burns, they burn when need be and when its safe
18:20 this is true, but also we have more than doubled the greenhouses gases in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution and therefore made the atmosphere's capacity to hold heat hugely increase (i.e. climate warming) and therefore the length of droughts and intensity of heatwaves (as well as their frequency) has caused the number of high-risk fire danger days to skyrocket. Therefore we need indigenous preventative cold-burning more than ever in history.
3 years on from 2019 fires the last 2 have had traditional winters. In the North East Victoria. That said cooler summers were also the same.
Global warming is a business for the rich to make money." Gore " and friends.
The weather is cyclic so we only agree on one thing. Cool burning. But I'm not hearing indigenous burnings being accepted by the dads army volunteers CFA, RFS who run their own agendas. Let alone scientists and left wing beaurucrats.
is there a way to find those original videos?
Love this
Bushfire Ready!
Thank you
Listen, React, Results 🎧👀💓😷
I'm thinking about sending this to the prime minister
Amazing education video, has definitely helped inspire my upcoming academic essay. But why was there no warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers at the start of this video that it contained images and voices of people who have died?
yes , , this is the right way , , the best way : - )
Cause and Effect
If All things are in Harmony with "Nature'
Man must learn from Nature and look after nature
All things are in Harmony with Nature
Yes I agree, first nation ppl are more wiser then us. they know what's happening and we are not listening. We have to let them manage the land, we will be better off.
Wow, how is the situation two years later? Will people get off their jobs who dont fulfil them anymore and are willing to get training in this. Especially in rural areas it could be a good training program or voluntary program in school to be trained in this to look after the land in that way he says. I wish for the Australians that more people are willing to learn this and actively participate. How is the situation?
Hope
Ok I see
We need better forest management, not climate doomism.
This needs to happen slow down the water to
"Fire is like water.." sorry but I laughed at that
Great program and message but I'm not hearing that this has been taken up and used widely. South Coast in indigenous cool burning areas had 1 tenth less ferocity of fire intensity. Had these practices been adopted by National Parks the 75 foot mountain ash to the east of Cabramurra would not have acted as fuel (burnt 2003) in the 2019. Beaucrats will be the death of us all.
i heard the fires occurred bcuz the australian govts stopped tree cuts that were previously done to stop fires from occurring. same thing in los angeles.
Nah. Aussie Government has a pretty big hard-on for tree cutting. Lumber industry's basically in charge of forest management. They'd cut it all down if they could get away with it.
The bushfires occurred because that's part of the lifecycle here. Hell, eucalypts depend on it to reproduce. Total prevention of bushfires isn't the goal, it's making sure those fires are properly managed so they benefit the land instead of harming. Climate change has been making the conditions harsher, and this year we had the Indian Ocean Dipole in a positive phase which contributed to a major drought. Preventative burns couldn't be safely performed in time (in part because of the conditions, but also because the government made major reductions to firefighting budgets and personnel) and the fires spread faster and wider than they usually do.
@@Shampyon ' Preventative burns couldn ' t be safely performed in time ( in part because of the conditions , but also because the government made major reductions to firefighting budgets and personnel ) and the fires spread faster and wider than they usually do . '
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so in the beginning u disagree but in the end agree with me or am i reading this right? prevented the trees from being cut so the fire spread. but we do agree that it was human action or inaction that caused the sydney fires. the fires go where theres dry trees. i'm pretty sure they knew the damage that would occur in the city fire bureau bcuz that their job. i mean... in previous years the city would have burned down as well but didnt bcuz there was a govt agency that made sure there was enough clearing so the brushfires dont burn the city. all that govt person was needed was to tell the privately owned forestry industrialist making money from the cuttings that he needed to cut somewhere and not cut somewhere else. seems pretty simple smth ppl dont even need to make a career of lol bcuz it s smth that every person thats ever made a fire knows. so last year the govt fired that bureau or person and all this resulted lol. lets see if this year the cities burn as well. well have the personnel doing this difficult job been rehired or is it fire season again ? maybe they need a raise lol ...
yep....damn tree huggers have NFC
@@Shampyon you also had arson
Increased fuel from longer duration of drought, shorter windows for reductions, increase in bushfire season, cuts to services, season crossover with US who’s resources we share
c-c-c-crazy
Did Aboriginal people burn to reduce potential fire hazards, or burn to flush out the animals for food?
I actually don’t know if you’re trolling but I’ll answer anyway as surely someone will read this and wonder... the aboriginal start a small fire to warn animals amd give them time to move out due to the smell, so once that happens it starts to love out and they go no faster than walk pace and no higher than waste length, they burn the fire with no or little wind, if there is wind they will control it against the wind so that it can’t catch for behind it. With thes burns they don’t make them big or hot so they don’t destroy wildlife or their homes. They also call it cool burns so that’s meaning that it doesn’t destroy the soil it doesn’t destroy seeds, most of Australian bush is dependant on fire so that the seeds actually explode(like popcorn but with a whole lot of nutrients) fires are needed for the Australian bush to germinate- to kill weeds and as I said before for seeds to pop like popcorn this is how they reproduce. As an Australian who has part heritage on the 1st fleet and heritage from the stolen generation I have the view of needing the indigenous land management to move forward to provide pure health for our country... hell these people have greenery growing in the desert of australia
@@erincorg2506 thanks for the info
Holistic health of the bush.
Government are listening to the wrong people the snowflakes the tree huggers they have not got a clue that’s the right people do the right job I feel sorry for Australian firefighters and for the people who want to put up with it and lose everything and for the people at Preston it on the animals if you need to dig a trench a mile long wide do it if it’ll stop it spreading even better stay strong stay safe and look after each other all the best Lynn
Mate, you're kidding yourself if you think any of the relevant government agencies are taking their orders from the "tree huggers". Hell, if they were they would have been doing preventative burns instead of the mostly LibNat governments and councils slashing funding to fire prevention and firefighting.
"We need change"..... yes we do. Stop burning the country, put the water back and let ALL plants grow. Australia is the monoculture dry country because of burning for 40,000 years.
End the madness and put water into the land.
I do strongly encourage Abbo culture and knowledge to be documented and shared, but the burning must stop.
Are you stupid?
Our ancestors have been burning off shit too stop it killing bigger areas, tree, animals and people. How stupid are you?
You actually think burning is what is draining us of water... We're a drought riden country.
"Abo" No, it's Indigenous or Aboriginal Culture.
@keith tiong My ancestors are the original inhabitants ..
@@kylearmstrong7971 Apinun wantok bilong olgeta ✊🏾 "Always was always will be " 😎
Hey Shaun, can you please try and listen and educate yourself? Your comments shows a lot of ignorance. Did you watch this program? Because if you did you haven't actually taken any of it in, have you? Put simply, the Australian Country needs cultural burning to stay healthy. And that requires an enormous amount of knowledge, layers and layers which inform the practice of Cultural Burning which Indigenous peoples in Australia have been doing for over 60, 000 years. We are fortunate to have Victor Steffensen who has learned from two elders and is carrying on this work to heal the Country. Try and think about it and be grateful for that. Also, the word "Abbo:" is a racist slur and deeply offensive to First Nations peoples. It's completely unacceptable, ok? I'm not indigenous but I am Australian and I'm speaking up for what is right. And don't start that crap about how long have your family been in Australia compared with the indigenous peoples because the reality is that all of us who are not indigenous are immigrants or refugees or their descendants. We are all living on un-ceded, stolen Aboriginal land. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Have some respect, start learning and listening. It's the only way we are going to really make progress in Australia.
@@kikicrete Thank you, your support for aboriginal culture & people is great. 👍