The benefits of cool burns

For more information on how you can help our environment, or to make some suggestions of your own, please go to www.coolaustralia.org

You have already completed a project on the many benefits for Indigenous peoples in using cool burning to manage country.

This fact sheet includes some of the other important benefits of cool burning.

More cool burns will reduce hot burns resulting in less greenhouse gases.

More cool burns will reduce hot burns resulting in less damage to farm properties.

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The benefits of cool burns

For more information on how you can help our environment, or to make some suggestions of your own, please go to www.coolaustralia.org

More cool burns will reduce hot burns resulting in less wildlife being harmed.

More cool burns will reduce hot burns resulting in fewer trees, plants and their seeds being destroyed.

More cool burns will reduce hot burns, which means more grass for grazing cattle and wildlife to eat.

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The benefits of cool burns

For more information on how you can help our environment, or to make some suggestions of your own, please go to www.coolaustralia.org

More cool burns will reduce hot burns which will help some endangered species.

More cool burns will reduce hot burns preventing many logs from burning. These logs are often home for small creatures. In addition, smouldering logs after hot burns produce more greenhouse gases.

By following a program of cool burns, land can be managed so that carbon credits can be earned. This allows famers, Aboriginal communities and even parks to earn income from managing country with cool burns.

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The benefits of cool burns

For more information on how you can help our environment, or to make some suggestions of your own, please go to www.coolaustralia.org

Cool burning projects have enabled scientists to work with and learn from Aboriginal people.

Cool burning is a very cheap way of managing large areas of land.

Cool burning projects provides new employment opportunities in large areas of northern Australia.

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