David Bowman

Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania

The Conversation
Two people standing in a dry area in front of a wildfire

What Aboriginal Australians can teach us about managing wildfires

Since last summer’s bushfire crisis in Australia, there’s been a quantum shift in public awareness of Aboriginal fire management. It’s now more widely understood that Indigenous people used landscape burning to sustain biodiversity and suppress large bushfires.