東南亞／大洋洲，系列照片

世界新聞攝影展年度系列照片

Matthew Abbott

澳洲，國家地理雜誌／Panos Pictures

澳洲原住民以一種被稱為「冷燃燒」的方式有策略地焚燒土地，在這種做法中，火勢緩慢移動，只燃燒灌木叢，而排除了助長野火蔓延的可燃物。澳州西阿納姆地的納瓦德肯族人數萬年來一直採用著這種可控的冷燃燒技術，並視火為他們管理139萬公頃家園的工具。瓦德肯土地管理員用傳統知識結合現代科技來防止野火，因而減少導致氣候熱化的二氧化碳。

2021年5月3日，澳洲阿納姆地，瑪瑪達維爾，納瓦德肯的長者Conrad Maralngurra焚燒野草來保護瑪瑪達維爾社區不受季末「野火」的影響。傍晚一旦氣溫下降、濕度上升，火勢將自然熄滅。

Southeast Asia and Oceania, Stories

World Press Photo Story of the Year

Matthew Abbott

Australia, for National Geographic/Panos Pictures

Indigenous Australians strategically burn land in a practice known as cool burning, in which fires move slowly, burn only the undergrowth, and remove the build-up of fuel that feeds bigger blazes. The Nawarddeken people of West Arnhem Land, Australia, have been practicing controlled cool burns for tens of thousands of years and see fire as a tool to manage their 1.39 million hectare homeland. Warddeken rangers combine traditional knowledge with contemporary technologies to prevent wildfires, thereby decreasing climate-heating CO2.

Nawarddeken elder Conrad Maralngurra burns grass to protect the Mamadawerre community from late-season ‘wildfires’, in Mamadawerre, Arnhem Land, Australia, on 3 May 2021. The late-evening fire will die out naturally once the temperature drops and moisture levels rise.