Aboriginal Wetland Burning in Kakadu (2005)

For more information, go to http://www.csiro.au/science/KakaduWetlandBurning.html

Traditional ecological knowledge is being used in powerful combination with Western science to enhance the biodiversity and cultural values of wetlands in Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory.

As part of the northern Australian Burning for Biodiversity project, CSIRO and the Bushfire CRC are working with a family of traditional owners in Kakadu National Park to examine the biodiversity and cultural benefits of Aboriginal fire management as it is re-applied to floodplains associated with the South Alligator River.

This video was produced by CSIRO Publishing.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• CSIRO
• Kakadu
• National
• Park
• Aboriginal
• fire
• management
• Bushfire
• CRC
• biodiversity

[yabblie]

Can you guys please get over to W.A and teach them how it is done properly? Us whiteys need to learn how it is done by the traditional owners! Thanks so much for this video has been wonderful to see how it is done the right way, even seeing how the small grass grows for the young geese. Oh we could learn so much.

[planetrapulon]

Thanks CSIRO for this video, it will be a good introduction for my class on the subjecct of controlled burning, with historical perspectives. It seems counter-intuitive to burn a flood plain. It is amazing to see that this ecosystem is capable of burning.

[tauroxavi]

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