Cultural burning practices in Australia

Indigenous Australians have used fire to shape and manage the land for over 60,000 years. While these practices have been widely disrupted over a number of generations, there is a growing recognition of the value of cultural burning, including as a way to mitigate the effects of bushfires. This paper provides background about cultural burning practices in Australia and surveys some of the literature about the practice.

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