Kangaroos win when aborigines hunt with fire: Co-evolution benefits Australia's martu people and wildlife
Monday, August 4, 2014 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
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 – showing how co-evolution helped marsupials and made Aborigines into unintentional conservationists.