Aboriginal Fire Management

Indigenous knowledge has contributed to countless improvements that exist today, especially fire management, allowing modern day civilizations to use the indigenous knowledge to improve the surrounding lands.

Fire management is a method used by the Aboriginal people to care for the country. Using intentional burning management the Aboriginal peoples created artificial grasslands which not only encouraged wildlife into an area, however, transformed the land into a more preferred environment for hunting. The creation of grasslands through burning practices created more frequent, however, less intense bushfires that could be easily avoided by the aboriginal people. When European settlers arrived, the intentional burning became less common, resulting

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Aboriginal people have been undertaking fire management for thousands of years to benefit the growth of crops, hunting, and much more. However, with the recent yet rapid colonization and eradication of aboriginal people from traditional lands has resulted in a large amount of decrease in fire management. Traditional Aboriginal burning was close to extinction in the 20th century, largely resulting in an emergence of uncontrolled rampaging fires. The uncontrolled fire, causing a negative impact on infrastructure meant Aboriginal methods were required to improve the burning of crops and

Indigenous practices in terms of fire management were almost completely abolished at the arrival of European settlers due to concerns about damage to European infrastructure. However, due to the decline of Aboriginal practices fires (especially north) began to grow in size and danger, causing a significant increase in uncontrolled fires and greenhouse gas emissions. To solve these increasing problems Aboriginal people have been offered jobs as fire managers, managing the burning of fires in an attempt to decrease use of excessive resources and amounts of greenhouse gases that are emitted. Since the reintroduction of Indigenous knowledge, a significant positive trend has been portrayed in the effects of burning. Since considering the Aboriginal burning management methods around 500,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions have been avoided in 2017. (Creative Spirits, 2017). There is a continuous increase in the amount in which indigenous knowledge is used to improve upon methods that are used today around the world. There is not only ecological benefit, however, there is also a cultural benefit to the aboriginal