How First Nations cultural knowledge helps prevent bushfires
The Briefing12 Joulu 2023

How First Nations cultural knowledge helps prevent bushfires

Already this summer season is proving to be dry, hot and dangerous for the risk of bushfires. And the future is looking bleak, with predictions that our bushfire season will increase in both length and intensity.

But while we already undertake hazard reduction burns each year to reduce the fuel for fires to feed off, could we learn more from the cultural burning practices of Australia’s First Nations Peoples?

On this extra episode of The Briefing, we speak with former Emergency Management commissioner for Victoria, Craig Lapsley, and cultural burning practitioner Trent Nelson, to find out.

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