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Aboriginal hunting practice increases animal populations

In Australia's Western Desert, Aboriginal hunters use a unique method that actually increases populations of the animals they hunt, according to a study co-authored by Stanford Woods ...
Hartford Courant

Aboriginal methods to prevent fires drawing new attention as much of Australia burns

At a time when vast tracts of Australia are burning, Violet Lawson is never far from a match. In the woodlands surrounding her home in the far north of the country, she lights hundreds of small fires ...
The Conversation

To address the ecological crisis, Aboriginal peoples must be restored as custodians of Country

Barkandji Elder Uncle Badger Bates explaining traditional plant use. Indigenous Australians have unrivalled knowledge of their Countries. Zena Cumpston, Author provided (no reuse) In the wake of ...
The Conversation

Australia, you have unfinished business. It’s time to let our ‘fire people’ care for this land

Since last summer’s bushfire crisis, there’s been a quantum shift in public awareness of Aboriginal fire management. It’s now more widely understood that Aboriginal people used landscape burning to ...
YES! Magazine

To Help Australia, Look to Aboriginal Fire Management

Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive. A firefighter sprays foam retardant on a back burn ahead of a fire front in ...
cursus.edu

Colonial trauma and aboriginal therapeutic practice [Thesis].

Claire: "Dadirri. This is the Aboriginal way... We are at home in silence... We are not afraid of it... As Aborigines, we have learned from the earliest times... to ...