BellingenNSW<p>"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.</p><p>A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks. </p><p>"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."<br>>><br>On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al<br><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401</span><span class="invisible">045121</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bushfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SettlerSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerSociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plantations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SettlerSocieties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerSocieties</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/unsustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unsustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dispossession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dispossession</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BioculturalRestoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BioculturalRestoration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CulturalBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalBurning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>restoration</span></a></p>