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Right Way Fire

Right Way Fire

The Australian landscape and ecosystems have been shaped by traditional fire management over thousands of years.  

Increasingly large wildfires fuelled by climate change are contributing to significant biodiversity loss in the desert.   

The IDA empowers Indigenous rangers to implement right-way fire on rangers’ Country. This is culturally informed fire management which results in outcomes that reflect traditional practice.   

The IDA enables Indigenous rangers to collaborate on the largest Indigenous-led, landscape-scale, fire management program in the world.

Right-way fire is about what is left behind. The biodiversity, cultural heritage and communities of the desert are protected from destructive wildfires. 

 

"A big wildfire just destroys everything, it destroys Country. The first aim is to do a bit of ground burning and then aerial burning, that way we know everything is protected. Using the helicopter and plane, we can access Country that’s hard to get to in a vehicle. It might not have been burnt in a long time and we can break it up It’s good working with other groups. Fires that start on their side might come over to us and fires on ours might go to them. Working together we protect each other, looking after neighbours."

Braeden Taylor, Karajarri Rangers

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