Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Deep-time research shows how important Indigenous cultural practices were for reducing dangerous high-intensity fires. It also suggests a way forward in Autralia's current fire crisis, which climate change is making worse.

As Canada concludes what will be its second-largest wildfire season in two decades, experts and front-line responders are urging policy-makers to enable First Nations participation in firefighting operations.

Indigenous Caribbean peoples developed systems to manage hurricanes. Colonialism disrupted these, placing communities in vulnerable areas. Exploitative land policies and poor construction still increase disaster risks today.

Cultural burning was one of the main ways Indigenous groups managed land. They created mosaics of burned and unburned land, reducing the chance of megafires by burning fuel loads and creating safe havens in dangerous times.

This guide should be considered alongside Evacuation Planning when developing an evacuation plan and will support culturally safe and effective evacuations of Indigenous people at risk from natural and other hazards.

Navajo are restoring their watersheds — and boosting their food sovereignty — with earthen berms and small dams made of woven brush, sticks, and rocks.

The singling out of “slash and burn” farming practices in Belize’s Indigenous communities as the primary cause of wildfires ignores the underlying causes of the climate crisis, are scientifically unfounded and stoke resentment of Indigenous Peoples.

This paper documents the outcomes of a year-long intervention designed to address climate challenges in Jodhpur, India utilising a mixed methods that featured the production of the documentary "Sanchay".