GoKawiilStudy links Australia's fiercer bushfires to end of Indigenous burning after colonization
A Nature study reconstructing 1,000 years of fire history in southeastern Australia found that British colonization halted Indigenous burning practices, allowing open, grassy landscapes to turn into dense, flammable forests. Researchers analysed a sediment core from Croajingolong National Park, land traditionally managed by the Gunaikurnai people, who were forcibly removed in the mid-1800s.