Regering focust op Indigenous kennis bij wetenschap en onderzoek
A handout photo made available by the World Press Photo Foundation shows one for four images of the World Press Photo Story of the Year 2022 by Australian photographer Matthew Abbott, for National Geographic / Panos Pictures, depicting Indigenous Australians strategically burning land in a practice known as cool burning, in which fires move slowly, burn only the undergrowth, and remove the build-up of fuel that feeds bigger blazes in West Arnhem Land, Australia, 31 October 2021 (issued 07 April 2022). For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal people - the oldest continuous culture on earth - have been strategically burning the country to manage the landscape and to prevent out of control fires. At the end of the wet season, there's a period of time where this prescribed burning takes place. The Nawarddeken people of West Arnhem Land, Australia, have been practicing controlled cool burns for tens of thousands of years and see fire as a tool to manage their 1.39 million hectare homeland. Warddeken rangers combine traditional knowledge with contemporary technologies to prevent wildfires, thereby decreasing climate-heating CO2. Credit: AMBER BRACKEN / WORLD PRESS PHOTO FOUNDATION / Matthew Abbott/EPA
