A millennium of evidence reveals colonial roots of Australia’s wildfire vulnerability

Mongabay reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with Mongabay, which released it. A 1,000-year ecological reconstruction reveals that Australia’s ongoing wildfire crisis stems from the colonial disruption of Indigenous fire management rather than climate change alone, according to a study published in Nature. For more than 800 years prior to British colonization in 1788, the Indigenous Gunaikurnai people maintained stable, open eucalypt woodlands across southeastern Australia using […] Original link: https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/a-millennium-of-evidence-reveals-colonial-roots-of-australias-wildfire-vulnerability/