Northern Australia's burning practices could be the answer to preventing future bushfire disasters

Fire management experts in northern Australia have encouraged the south to take note of their practices, which have already been adopted internationally.

Charles Darwin University Centre for Bushfire researcher Rohan Fisher and Senior land ranger for the Tiwi Islands Willie Rioli Source: Aneeta Bhole

Indigenous fire management practices handed down from generation to generation could be the answer to reducing Australia's catastrophic bushfires, a Darwin fire forum has been told.

Devastating bushfires in the southern states destroyed millions of hectares of land this season and killed an estimated one billion animals.

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Indigenous rangers, scientists and policy makers gather in the Northern Territory to discuss fire management

Aneeta Bhole