Fighting Carbon with Fire

ISFMI United Nations University Traditional Knowledge Initiative. 2009. Fighting Carbon with Fire.

Fire has been used by Bininj (aboriginal) people for managing habitats and food resources across northern Australian over millennia. ‘The secret of fire in our traditional knowledge is that it is a thing that brings the land alive again. So we don’t necessarily see fire as bad and destructive — it can be a good thing’.

A short video about the effects of climate change on indigenous people managing a dry savanna zone in Arnhem Land, Northern Australia, narrated by ISFMI Advisory Committee member and Arnhem Land Fire Ecologist Dean Yibarbuk.