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Aboriginal Elders’ Ancient Fire Miracle

After devastating bushfires scorched Australia’s Barrington Tops National Park in 2019 something extraordinary happened, 4,000 rare veined doubletail orchids suddenly bloomed across the burn footprint, leading to a remarkable collaboration between Aboriginal elders and government scientists. The Birrbay, Warrimay, Wanarruwa, Gaewegal, and Guringay peoples, who call this sacred place the Biyan Biyan Plain, have returned to conduct traditional cultural burns for the first time in over 50 years, using ancestral knowledge to help these endangered orchids flourish. Warrimay elder Michelle Perry now works with Australia’s Department of Climate Change to lead prescribed burns that use slower, cooler fires based on millennia-old Indigenous practices designed to prevent destructive wildfires while nurturing native plant life.

The collaboration has already conducted three controlled burns across the plateau, with ongoing research studying their effects on the orchid population and the broader ecosystem. Perry describes feeling the approval of her ancestors during these ceremonies, calling it “one of the best things that’s happened for me and my family” as she helps reconnect 150 traditional owners with their ancestral land management responsibilities. The success proves that combining traditional ecological knowledge with modern conservation science can create powerful solutions for protecting endangered species. This beautiful partnership demonstrates how respecting Indigenous wisdom and restoring cultural practices can heal both the land and the connection between people and place, creating hope for rare species that seemed lost forever.

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