Indigenous stewardship
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Increasing the delivery of Cultural Fire
Victoria is one of the most bushfire-prone regions in the world, and reducing fuel loads on public and private land is central to protecting life, property and the natural environment from bushfire. For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal peoples in Victoria managed fire-prone land through cultural burning,…
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Climate Resilient Landscapes: Regional Landscape Boards
Climate Resilient Landscapes is a coordinated climate resilience project designed collectively by South Australia’s eight regional landscape boards and funded through the state’s Landscape Priorities Fund (LPF). Awarded in October 2025, it comprises eight regionally tailored sub-projects, one per board, each addressing locally specific drought and…
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SB 310 Cultural Fire Agreements
Fuel accumulation, driven by over a century of fire suppression policy, has created landscapes that burn at higher intensity than at any point in the historical record. Climate change is compounding this through drought, heat, and shifting wind patterns that extend fire season and enable larger,…