While large burns to reduce fuel loads are the Western way, this Aboriginal-led group is training people in the traditional ways of fire management to look after the landscape.
An Aboriginal -led group has completed a run of workshops in Tas mania, teaching traditional methods of land management using smaller, cooler fires to help regenerate the landscape and reduce fuel loads.
Firesticks also works with the government and to help the broader community connect with traditional fire knowledge.Burning country this way gets rid of bushfire fuel, as well as rejuvenating the surrounding area for wildlife and people, allowing the space to be utilised again.Tasmanian pakana elder Jim Everett is no stranger to what country looks like when it is unwell.
The group said Western burning practices, though "well-intentioned", had "often contributed to further damage to the country by lighting hazard-reduction fires that are too hot, lit at the wrong time and in the wrong place".
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