Restoring Open Ecosystem with Ecological & Cultural Fire - PRACTITIONERS

Professional development training for on-ground practitioners. Understand how traditional fire practice is critical for ecological restoration of open ecosystems.

Good Fire is cool, controlled and staged in mosaic patterns over multi-year intervals. It is an ancient cultural practice to care for country, it benefits biodiversity, mitigates destructive wildfire impacts and sequesters atmospheric carbon. Awareness of the need to restore good fire is growing but its implementation of on-ground burning is hindered by a limited understanding of the ecological and cultural values of Fire Country and how the absence of fire threatens them.

This professional development training is important for restoration practitioners and biodiversity managers because, across open-ecosystems generally, fire exclusion is attributed to a range of negative consequences including:

• structural change and ecosystem displacement;
  
• localised decline and extinction of open-forest flora species;
  
• localised decline and extinction of open-forest fauna species;
  
• dieback of canopy dominants & open forest displacement;
  
• establishment of transformer weeds; and
  
• Increased risk of high intensity bushfire

It will increase your understanding of the ecological and cultural values that require cool fire and build skills to safely restore this ecological process into the landscape.

Held in Byron Shire, this training program consists of 1-day of presentations and on-country learning (May 25th) and 1-day cultural burn and post-burn field day led by Jagun Alliance Aboriginal Corporation(June 4th). The burn is weather dependent and therefore may require re-scheudling to a following Thursday in June. This event is hosted by Zero Emissions Byron and supported by the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal. If you need financial assistance to attend please contact Wren on 0437643008 or [email protected]

Placements are limited. If the PRACTIONERS training books out please book into the MANAGERS training on May 29th.

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