As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention. By Thomas Fuller Photographs and Video ...

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 ...

Jenny Brown, who leads Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy and Impact at the Australian Red Cross, has seen how wildfires devastated her community and others. A Wandi Wandian woman from ...

ILLAROO, Australia (Reuters) - As bushfires engulf parts of southeastern Australia, indigenous Australians say their traditional land burning methods could help contain out-of-control blazes that have ...

Southern Yuin cultural fire practitioner Dan Morgan guides a gentle fire through bushfire-scarred forest at the Murrah on the NSW far south coast. "After the bushfires that we've been getting, you ...

Interest in Aboriginal fire knowledge has been high since last summer’s terrible bushfires. One initiative shows the huge potential benefits of this ancient practice – not just in Australia, but ...

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 ...