K'gari fire management program Fire gently burning through the trees on K'gari. (Landline: Cam Lang)

Fire gently burning through the trees on K'gari. (Landline: Cam Lang)

Melds modern science with Butchulla cultural burning

K’gari fire management program melds modern science with traditional Butchulla cultural burning.

A recent ABC News story on how traditional burning methods and new science are working together on K’gari (Fraser Island) for better environmental outcomes.

Uncle Boyd Blackman, a Butchulla elder said,

You can’t walk in front and expect people to follow; you can’t walk behind and expect to lead,
You have to do it side by side and if you make mistakes then we did it together, not one or the other.

Read the full story on the ABC News

 

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