Cultural burning to protect threatened species
Source: News environment.nsw.gov.au 20 June 2023
In northern NSW, cultural burning is helping to secure populations of threatened species that rely on fire to maintain habitat for their survival.
A number of threatened species rely on fire to maintain habitat crucial to their survival. The eastern chestnut mouse (Pseudomys gracilicaudatus), Hastings River mouse (Pseudomys oralis) and eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) rely on open forest with dense tussocky grass understorey. Maintaining the structure of this kind of habitat requires frequent low intensity burns.
In northern NSW, Saving our Species works with Aboriginal groups to plan and implement cultural fire management on both Aboriginal-owned land and on national park estate. This ’cultural burning’ is a cultural fire practice used by Aboriginal people to improve the health of Country and its people. It has been used for over 60,000 years to manage land, plants and animals.
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