Conservation of Earth’s biodiversity is embedded in Indigenous fire stewardship
...Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Increasingly, severe wildfires have led to declines in biodiversity across all of Earth’s vegetated biomes [D. B. McWethy et al. , Nat. Sustain. 2, 797–804 (2019)]. Unfortunately, the displacement of Indigenous peoples and place-based societies that rely on and routinely practice fire stewardship has resulted in significant declines in biodiversity...
