Monaro Farmers Using Aboriginal Cool-Burn Fires to Recover Biodiversity

 

Farmers on the Monaro plains are learning new land management skills from the country’s traditional Aboriginal custodians.

In an effort to recover biodiversity lost over two centuries of farming, farmers like Charlie Massy are looking for practical solutions to rejuvenating what he described as “severely degraded country”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Massy is a highly respected woolgrower, academic and author, and leader in a movement known as regenerative farming. He recently hosted a Landcare field day on his family’s 1,820-hectare sheep and cattle property, and nearly 50 people showed up to learn from Indigenous land manager, Rod Mason.

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