“Fire is the answer, and fire is the tool. This is our landscape; this is where we live, this is what we want to protect. This is where we belong – here.”
Dean Yibarbuk, ALFA Director
FEATURED PROJECT:
West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement project
The WALFA project became the landscape scale model upon which the government-approved savanna burning methodology was based. It provided a template for every future savanna burning fire management project across northern Australia.
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Methodology
Australia’s vast and ecologically intact northern tropical savannas are extremely flammable, and fire is arguably the most important tool that Aboriginal people have for looking after country.
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Our offsets projects involve community-based Aboriginal ranger groups whose work reduces greenhouse gas emissions and improves the environmental health of country.