For thousands of years, indigenous Australians have used fire to foster grasslands for hunting and to clear tracks through dense vegetation. The indigenous land management group said that a traditional knowledge about indigenous fire management techniques could prevent huge bushfires seen in the New South Wales.

The Australian Aborigines have regularly burned-off the bush as a method to manage the landscape over the last 50,000 years now. The new research shows us that the Australian bushfires history can be explained by climate change and fire patterns, but the fires didn’t increase until the Aboriginals first arrived about 50,000 years ago.