Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research

<https://theconversation.com/indigenous-fire-management-began-more-than-11-000-years-ago-new-research-225263>

"Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land
every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the
seventh largest in the world.

In Australia, most fire occurs in the vast tropical savannas of the country’s
north. In new research published in Nature Geoscience, we show Indigenous
management of fire in these regions began at least 11,000 years ago – and
possibly as long as 40,000 years ago."

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