“The bush is the victim of immense fires that no human technology, however sophisticated, can control. This is also because the peoples who have cared for the forests for 50,000 years have either been decimated or lost the possibility to protect biodiversity and maintain the landscape. Today, faced with the absolute impotence of Western rationality, it is we who are calling on the aboriginal rangers, but also the Amerindians, the Corsican foresters, the Californian breeders, the Siberian peoples for help. ... Let us hope that their 'fire culture' and their natural sciences have withstood the onslaught of 'civilisation' better than the nature in flames.” Zoëlle Zask, le Monde

Key words: wildfires; fire cultures; fire regimes

Reading material:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/our-burning-planet-why-we-must-learn-to-live-with-fire?fbclid=IwAR13dh286F8lVEfaU0uMr5adyz5XpZRSKgTfTkLOC9vqLTHu8xxk-PltyBs

https://aeon.co/essays/how-humans-made-fire-and-fire-made-us-human

https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-is-burning-around-us-is-it-time-to-declare-the-pyrocene

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