"We use fire for many reasons: not only for conservation and management, but also as a healing process for land, for people, for native plants and animals. Fire is a tool that we have used from the beginning, from the deep past until today." - Dean Yibarbuk, Traditional Owner of Djinkarr and Co-Chair of KKT

‘Right now, hundreds of bushfires are burning across northern Australia. But this is not a wildfire catastrophe—in fact, these burns are making things safer in one of the most fire-prone landscapes in the world. From April to June each year, fire managers—such as Traditional Owners, park rangers and pastoralists—aim to create small, “cool” fires with care and precision to reduce fuel loads before conditions get severe later in the dry season. This work, “painting” landscapes with fire, is constantly informed by satellite data.