#indigenous-fire-stewardship

Reconnect isolated habitat patches through restoration and locally governed land or water management so threatened animals can disperse, reproduce and adapt.

Give affected communities and Indigenous rights holders meaningful authority, resources and continuing roles in wildfire planning and evaluation.

Secure local land rights and resource community monitoring teams to detect, prevent and respond to harmful fire in fire-sensitive territories.

Return authority and durable resources to Indigenous and local practitioners who use place-based fire knowledge to care for fire-adapted landscapes.

Indigenous ranger groups apply carefully timed early dry-season burning across northern Australia to reduce large, high-intensity late-season fires. Projects generate verified carbon credits (ACCUs) under the Australian…

In Riau Province, community peatland patrol and water-monitoring programmes have been implemented with government and research partners. Effectiveness depends heavily on whether hydrological management, land tenure clar…

Brazil enacted Law 14,944 on 2024-07-31 to establish a National Integrated Fire Management Policy. The law formally recognises ecological and traditional fire use, prevention, response, recovery, shared governance acros…

Indigenous-led cultural burning initiatives in Canada operate through partnerships with Parks Canada and Natural Resources Canada. Governance and land access barriers remain active challenges; programs are context-speci…