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Indigenous rangers across Australia's desert are protecting an area nearly the size of Argentina using cultural burning techniques passed down through millennia of storytelling. Their work has restored biodiversity to 346 million acres in just four years.
When a bushfire tore through Tathra in 2018, it stopped cold at land treated with Indigenous cultural burning six months earlier. Now insurers are racing to create affordable coverage that could expand this proven fire prevention method across Australia.