New research from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has highlighted that increased cultural burning by Indigenous Australians prevented high-intensity fires for millennia.
Forest fires are projected to increase in the coming years, as a result of anthropogenic climate change – climate change directly caused by human activity. Understanding the linkages between climate change, human activity and fires is important to plan for successful management of fire-prone landscapes, such as Australia’s.
The new research, published in , highlights how the intensity of forest fires in fire-prone southeastern Australia decreased over time alongside an increase in Indigenous populations.
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