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Colonisation of Australia led to big increase in wildfire danger

An analysis of lake sediments in south-eastern Australia has revealed that the expulsion of Indigenous communities in the ...

Colonisation, not climate change, first primed these forests to burn

We found that for more than 800 years, frequent, low-temperature cultural burning under GunaiKurnai care kept held this land ...

British colonisation made Australia more prone to bushfires

British colonisers thought they were protecting forests by stopping Indigenous burning. It’s now backfiring - Colonisation led to fourfold increase in eucalyptus tree cover and transformed landscape f ...

Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds

Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.

‘Catastrophic wildfire loop’ after colonisation left parts of Australia more at risk from bushfires, study finds

Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices ...

Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation

Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought ...
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Colonisation May Have Fuelled Australia's Recent Wildfires

Colonial land-use change may have helped fuel Australia's current wildfire crisis, according to a new study from environmental researchers in the UK ...

AUDIO: Australia's Indigenous population before European colonisation almost nine times higher than estimated

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Colonisation impact on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds

Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.