Australia Used to Look VERY Different

We’re helping to restore Australia's ancient landscape. 🌱 Join us to rewild the planet: https://planetwild.com/join/m40 Before colonization, much of Australia was not “wild” in the way Europeans imagined it. With knowledge going back tens of thousands of years, First Nations people purposefully cultivated the land and lived in balance with nature. Colonization shattered that balance. British colonists cleared the land and displaced the First Nations people as quickly and brutally as possible. In Mission 40, we teamed up with the Forktree Project to transform the landscape back into the paradise it once was. By combining Indigenous wisdom and contemporary climate science, we’re helping restore the landscape so it can function and thrive again the way it did for thousands of years. Make sure to follow the Forktree Project: IG: https://www.instagram.com/forktreeproject/ Website: https://www.theforktreeproject.com/ We extend our gratitude to Mark Koolmatrie, the participating Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe Rangers, and the wider Ngarrindjeri community for generously sharing their traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property for Mission 40. We respectfully acknowledge the First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across the Fleurieu Peninsula where this project was filmed, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. #naturerestoration #treeplanting #ancientecosystem Chapters 0:00 Restoring a lost ecosystem 1:12 How Australia’s land was once managed 2:52 Firestick Farming 4:09 The benefits of Firestick Farming 5:43 The brutal clearing of the land 7:16 Meet our partner 8:35 How they’re bringing back this ecosystem 9:20 Our support 10:47 A pilot project _______________________ What is Planet Wild? We’re a global community of people who care deeply about nature and want to help our planet bounce back – one mission at a time. EVERY MONTH, we work with wildlife pioneers worldwide to 🦁 bring back endangered species 🌊 support oceans and aquatic life 🌳 revive forests and rewild landscapes EVERY MEMBER can decide how their money is spent, connect with us on our Discord, and collect unique badges for each mission they support. EVERY MISSION is documented in videos like this. 100% transparency. EVERYONE can join. The bigger the community grows, the bigger these missions will get! 👉 Become a Planet Wild member: https://planetwild.com/join/m40 👉 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/planetwild.official/ 👉 Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/planetwild-official/ Find all sources here: https://planetwild.notion.site/Mission-40-The-Forktree-Project-Sources-37a69e032b19803db78bed82e5ae3ff5?source=copy_link