{"id":2628,"date":"2019-12-02T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2023-10-29T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T12:55:12","slug":"fish-foundation-for-indigenous-sustainable-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/fish-foundation-for-indigenous-sustainable-health\/","title":{"rendered":"FISH &#8211; Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health &#8211; Botswana fire management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2635\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/staticfishbanner4-1.jpg?resize=1080%2C138&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/staticfishbanner4-1.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/staticfishbanner4-1.jpg?resize=300%2C38&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/staticfishbanner4-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C131&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/staticfishbanner4-1.jpg?resize=768%2C98&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/staticfishbanner4-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C197&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/staticfishbanner4-1.jpg?resize=2048%2C263&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">At a time when Australian State Government&#8217;s are failing to take advantage of Indigenous local knowledge the African Government of Botswana turned to Australian Indigenous knowledge to assist them in managing their bush fire risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fish.asn.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FISH &#8211; Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">commends the ABC TV news for featuring this story in May 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wNM2KATyepQ\" width=\"924\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">A group of Aboriginal rangers returned from the trip of a lifetime &#8211; teaching government workers how to stop the big bush-fires sweeping through their savannas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Over tens of thousands of year, Indigenous cultures around the world mastered the art of using weather conditions and early burns to prevent big, high-heat fires that could destroy shelter and food sources. In most parts of the world that knowledge has been lost &#8211; but not in Australia!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Wunggurr ranger Robin Dann, from Gibb River Station, says the Botswaneans were blown away by the Aussies&#8217; skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;I feel really good knowing that I passed on something&#8221; he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;When they were trying to put out a fire, they&#8217;d be running around, lots of people and fire trucks, not much leadership and not much knowledge of fire, and it ended up a real big hot fire.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;But for us, we used the wind, and ours was less intense, less heat, hardly any smoke.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;We&#8217;re different cultures, but for both of us, fire is so important, and once upon a time the fire regime in Australia was the best in the world I reckon.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">There are plans for Botswanean government rangers to visit the Kimberley later this year to learn more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; At a time when Australian State Government&#8217;s are failing to take advantage of Indigenous local knowledge the African Government of Botswana turned to Australian Indigenous knowledge to assist them in managing their bush fire risk. 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