Australia

Arnhem Land - Aboriginal fire ecologist, Dean Yibarbuk, explains how traditional fire management practices have kept the country healthy for thousands of years. Recently, his mob at Wardakken have been working with local scientists to adapt traditional fire management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This fire abatement scheme of Australia's Western Arnhemland is a carbon offset community programme, gaining a lot of international attention.

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Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change , Cape York, Australia

“When that whole ocean comes and rises up, where are we going to go?” ponders Inherkowinginambana, a Kunjen elder from Kowanyama, a coastal Aboriginal community in tropical Queensland, Australia.

“Every year it (the tide) comes in, it goes a bit further up….once it hits the swamps, that will kill all the plant life, and the waterways” adds an Aboriginal ranger who works with local elders to protect Aboriginal country and culture.

UNU's Indigenous Perspectives of Climate Change videobrief series

Located on the eastern shore of Australia’s tropical north, Shipton’s Flat is home to Marilyn, a Kuku Nyungkal Aboriginal woman, and her family.

She has been living here the ancestral way – far removed from the services and conveniences of modern life – as part of the sublime performance of nature.

Like her ancestors before her, Marilyn walks through the Nyungkal bubu, the Nyungkal’s country, acknowledging and conversing with the Spirit beings around her.

UNU's Indigenous Perspectives of Climate Change videobrief series
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