It's the middle of the Top End's wet season. Why are rangers burning country?

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Northern Australia's tropical savannas are among the most fire-prone regions in the world, but rangers and traditional owners are working to reduce the impacts of fire and climate change.

She said native speargrasses were thought to have become unnaturally dominant when Aboriginal people were forced from their lands and traditional burning practices were disrupted.

"Over the years, if you do really good, early dry-season burning and wet-season burning, you can bring much more diversity into the landscape, more barriers to fire," she says. "There are really important conservation values in the sandstone heath, and a lot of threatened species," fire program manager Ben Lewis says.

 

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Used to happen every year all over the country before the rabid greenies stopped it.

Speak English, burning the country, back burning.

To prevent bushfires

Ohers call it back burning, part of the slash and burn agicultural method of farming. Been done for millenia too.

There are heath species going extinct from lack of burning. Its fine to not have an opinion if you dont know much about a subject. We have all the info at our fingertips yet we’ve never been dumber or more arrogant. Myself included

'burning country'? You mean 'burning THE country'.

There were no mangroves in oz before blackfellas started burning. Pollen records

Nothing wrong with fuel reduction. We all use to do it once

Joy needs to be fired. It's horrific that her TDS overrides her compassion for humanity.🙏🏼 for our fellow Americans in Ohio. ABC allows this garbage? No more ABC for me.

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