New research by CIEHF and the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation reveals how colonisation disrupted cultural burning and transformed forests on GunaiKurnai Country, increasing wildfire risk long before climate change intensified the problem.
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Colonisation, not climate change, first primed these forests to burn
For more than 800 years, frequent cultural burning kept this land as stable, open woodland.
