Fire season preparation with cultural burning

It takes a disaster for everyone to pull together. See ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Age: Secondary School
Time: 7 mins
Format: Video

Despite the devastating fires that tore through the Kempsey Shire in NSW, the community is working together to build resilience in the face of big weather.

Watch this video from the ABC's Big Weather series about the Thungutti people who are working with farmers and the RFS to do cultural burning in preparation for the upcoming bushfire season.

Did you know?

Cool Burning, often referred to as Cultural Burning, are small blazes set alight to clear the underbrush. This process generates patchy habitats preferred by small animals and prevents lightning and wildfires from consuming the land.