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We had a smoking ceremony at the cultural fire and animals workshop this week and look who showed up...
#CulturalBurning #ecology #animals #eagle

People gathered around a fire tended by a ranger from an Aboriginal Corporation

a wedge-tailed eagle against a blue sky with some wispy clouds

The reemergence of cultural burning in southeastern Australia

"Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back
Indigenous-led cultural burning program in critically endangered woodlands in New South Wales."
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https://theconversation.com/colonisation-cleared-95-of-these-woodlands-indigenous-cultural-burning-is-bringing-it-back-257883
#CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire

Cultural Burning as Resistance to Colonisation. "this conflict represents not just a threat to cultural burning, but to capitalism itself as the land rapidly diminishes the conditions needed for capitalism’s existence"
#CulturalBurning #Fire #Ecology #Capitalism
https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2520305

A small grass fire burning out from a central ignition point, watched by some First nations people

Dear Friends,
Awareness of value of controlled/cultural burns in forestlands continues to rise. Long Island newspaper, Newsday, reports on the fire ecology of Long Island's unique Pine Barrens in the aftermath of small West Hampton Pines Fire. Byline: Tracy Tullis
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/environment/fires-suffolk-pine-barrens-hj29k448?utm_medium=web_share_api&utm_campaign=web_share_api

#ClimateDiary #ControlledBurns #CulturalBurning #Forestry #FireEcosystems

My article on animals and cultural burning available open access
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-024-00557-7
#ecology #animals #culturalburning #Australia

Are industrial scale burns incinerating Australian biodiversity?

"The “industrial” scale burns which are designed to “process landscapes as efficiently as possible” are known to frequently kill – in 2022, Victorian authorities accidentally incinerated several koalas when they set a forest alight, and evidence suggests fires set in Tasmania have killed endangered devils."

"A complete “rethink” of fire management practices by state authorities" is needed.
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/rare-aussie-bird-under-threat-over-common-tree-practice-catastrophic-061116403.html

Driscoll, D.A., Macdonald, K.J., Gibson, R.K. et al. Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08174-6
#Biodiversity #bushfires #fires #megafires #PyroConvectiveStorms #incineration #pileburning #sprawl #destruction #wildlife #birds #GlossyBlackCockatoos #koalas #CulturalBurning #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels

"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
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On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

Lessons from another settler society about current fire practices, land management and logging practices: With more good fire comes less feral fire.

"To understand modern fire policy in California requires an analysis of California’s settler attitude toward the more-than-human world. This attitude relies heavily on the invented concepts embedded in the words nature and wilderness."

“The white man sure ruined this country, it’s turned back to wilderness.”
Sierra Miwok elder James Rust, quoted by M. Kat Anderson

Excerpts of The State of Fire: Why California Burns by Obi Kaufmann. Heyday Books, in Los Angeles Review of Books September 15, 2024
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-then-is-natural/
#bushfires #CulturalBurning #FossilFuels #MegaFires #gigafire #arson #ClimateBreakdown #Cryosphere #droughts #smoke #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #FCNSW #harm #WUI #sprawl #cars #extractivism #denial #IndigenousPeoples #ecosystems #biodiversity #SettlerSociety #mindset #BelloBook

As summer heat arrives in August and they are expanding fossil fuels.
It is time to be prepared for mega fires in Australia.

"Australia’s unprecedented bushfires of 2019 to 2020 burned an area larger than the United Kingdom, killed at least 33 people, killed or displaced close to 3 billion animals, and destroyed the habitats of more than 500 species."

For 60,000 Years, Australia’s First Nations Have Put Fire to Good Use.
Watch “Burnt Country”, Kirsten Slemint's documentary on cultural burning in Australia.
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/2024-film-contest-second-place-australia-indigenous-fire
#bushfires #IndigenousBurning #CulturalBurning #FossilFuels #MegaFires #ExtremeHeat #biodiversity #koalas #extinction #Australia

2024 AUSTRALIAN LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION -
Finalists announced

See the photos & Vote for your favourite at:

https://news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/photos/finalists-of-the-2024-australian-life-photography-competition#lg=1&slide=documented-the-relief-of-francis

‘Kardu Yek Diminin Country’
by Adam Ferguson

This work is from Ferguson’s series and monograph, ‘Big Sky’, documenting shrinking small-towns, Aboriginal connection to Country, pastoralism, the impacts of globalisation and the adversity of climate change.

#Photography #Australian #Life #CulturalBurning #NorthernTerritory #AdamFerguson #CityOfSydney

Cousin sisters Shauna and Bridget Perdjert from Kardu Thithay Diminin Clan and Murrinhpatha language group, sit on Air Force Hill after practicing cultural burning on Kardu Yek Diminin Country, Wadeye, Northern Territory.

Both girls, wearing Taylor Swift T shirts, are sitting on a hilltop boulder between two trees, looking out over green scrubby country below.

Look at the bandicoot digging pits in this swamp-oak forest after a cultural burn! They're fanatical little gardeners
#fungiFriends #Australia #Culturalburning

An ashen forest floor with the bases of three swamp oak trees visible. The ground, is perforated with bandicoot digging pits at about 12 per square metre.

Whoever is right, it’s a no brainer that reducing the amount of combustible materials on the floor and at low to mid level in the bush is a good idea.
#culturalburning #climatechange

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/30/black-summer-fires-a-veteran-ecologist-says-australias-bushfire-modelling-is-flawed-others-disagree?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

3/several: Karuk Media, "Good Fire - Spring 2022" #CulturalBurning reduces fuel loads from decades of colonizer fire suppression policies, and outlawing of Indigenous ecosystem care practices https://vimeo.com/713954365

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Close-up of leeks seedlings in a polytunnel

Three boxes shot from above containing green peppers and red chilies

"Cardinal Christianson said that allowing communities to restore their cultural burning practices is a simple solution to reducing risk. But because of historical and colonial policies and laws, there are barriers. The hope now is that governments in Canada will listen."

On #CulturalBurning and other prescribed burning. #Wildfire https://globalnews.ca/news/9993619/canada-record-wildfire-season-frontlines/