They are learning from the Indigenous people who hold these trees sacred: the Martu, a First Nations tribe and one of the traditional landowners of Western Australia. The Martu created the ...

A recent study co-authored by Bucknell University Professor Chris Martine, biology, David Burpee Professor in Plant Genetics & Research, demonstrates how traditional practices of the Martu Aboriginal ...

A study of how the Martu shaped their land presents an example where humans seem to benefit an environment perceived as wilderness. By JoAnna Klein In Australia in recent decades, the bilby ...

I'm reasonably confident some of these trees will have some fruit next year ... This could be something going forward, that could employ Martu people and other locals who don't particularly ...

Working with representatives from the Martu people, an Australian Indigenous ... their findings by comparing charcoal fragments with tree samples from the surrounding region, the latter of which ...

Imagine that you have been given responsibility over a tract of land. Your goal is to maintain its precious biodiversity (increasing it if at all possible), prevent the local habitats from ...

The study draws a reference to Aboriginal Martu peoples in the northwest deserts of Australia, who have an ancient history of fire practices and experience used to manage the land and hunt.

Australia’s Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small fires to catch lizards, as they have for at least 2,000 years. A researcher found such human-made disruption boosts kangaroo populations ...

Australia's Western Desert, where Bird and her team work, is the homeland of the Martu, the traditional owners of a large region of the Little and Great Sandy Desert. During the mid-20th century ...

A West Australian indigenous corporation is being investigated.Credit: Greg Newington WDLAC, which is responsible for the Martu people and has been associated with some of indigenous Australia's ...

Despite 21st-century influences, WA’s Martu people continue to hunt using age-old customs. IN A DESICCATED WEST Australian landscape, where hunting has been a way of life for more than 5000 years, a ...