For over 2,000 years, Australia's Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass fires to catch lizards. A University of Utah researcher found such man-made disruption boosts kangaroo populations - showing how co-evolution helped marsupials and made Aborigines into unintentional conservationists. "We have uncovered a framework that allows us to predict when human subsistence practices might be detrimental to the environment and when they might be beneficial," ...Monday 4 August 2014
Kangaroos Win Against Aborigines Fire-Hunt
For over 2,000 years, Australia's Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass fires to catch lizards. A University of Utah researcher found such man-made disruption boosts kangaroo populations - showing how co-evolution helped marsupials and made Aborigines into unintentional conservationists. "We have uncovered a framework that allows us to predict when human subsistence practices might be detrimental to the environment and when they might be beneficial," ...
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