For 60,000 Years, Australia’s First Nations Have Put Fire to Good Use

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In “Burnt Country” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2024 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Kirsten Slemint centers the work of Tasmania’s Melukerdee people, who have long used low-temperature fires to reduce fuel loads and control far more destructive burns.

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