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What Are Fire Hawks and How Do They Spread Wildfire?

Fire hawks are like birds of prey who seem to either accidentally or tentionally spread wildfire by picking up smouldering twigs and sticks from a burning area. aboriginal peoples have known about this for thousands and thousands of years, and have a document ad this in their own folklore. But another thing is that we could have learned about controlled burns much, much earlier if we had decided to listen to the aboriginal peoples in northern australia m about fire hawks. They titll happen andi e worse, and they're out of control, and their big problems every year. And yet, learned nothing.

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