Aboriginal Hunters’ Fires Help Restore an Australian Desert

“A lot of Martu people say that if there’s no people out in the country, then all the animals become absent. With all the damage done to the planet’s environment in recent centuries, it’s easy for some to think of humans as the planet’s great destroyers. By examining how an Aboriginal Australian community have shaped their land through traditional hunting, they present an example where it’s not all bad to have humans around.

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