George Nichols in The Conversation shows how Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Ecological Knowledge may (or may not) be taken into account by Western Scientific Knowledge. He uses the 'new' knowledge of firehawks selectively firing country with firestick as an example of colonial science coming to understand these birds and their actions - intentionally setting fire to areas with firesticks - (Mark Bonta, Robert Gosford, Dick Eussen, Nathan Ferguson,
Erana Loveless, and Maxwell Witwer)
Though Aboriginal rangers and others who deal with bushfires take
into account the risks posed by raptors that cause controlled burns to
jump across firebreaks, official skepticism about the reality of avian
fire-spreading hampers effective planning for landscape management and
restoration.
(abstract)
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