Fire-stick farming

Fire-stick farming, also known as cultural burning and cool burning, is the practice of Aboriginal
Australians regularly using fire to burn vegetation, which has been practised for thousands of years. There
are a number of purposes for doing this special type of controlled burning, including to facilitate hunting, to
change the composition of plant and animal species in an area, weed control, hazard reduction, and
increase of biodiversity.

While it had been discontinued in many parts of Australia, it has been reintroduced in the 21st century by
the teachings of custodians from areas where the practice is extant in continuous unbroken tradition such
as the Noongar peoples' cold fire.

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