Australia needs to trust Aboriginal people and their knowledge of country and bushfires as they can help solve the environmental crisis that has seen the fastest rate of biodiversity loss on Earth, says Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher, in the University of Melbourne’s key annual address, the Narrm Oration.
Australia needs to trust Aboriginal people and their knowledge of country and bushfires as they can help solve the environmental crisis that has seen the fastest rate of biodiversity loss on Earth, says Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher, in the University of Melbourne’s key annual address, the Narrm Oration.
Associate Professor Fletcher said having lived through 68,000 years of massive climate and environmental changes “through an ice age, out of an ice age” up until the present day, Australia’s first inhabitants have accumulated knowledge through nearly 3000 generations of people.
“This is all knowledge that has been gathered scientifically. Indigenous knowledge is science - gained by observation, executing a plan, observation, refining your plan, executing a plan, observation. This is science.”
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