We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Guided by Country and led by Indigenous knowledge – Firesticks works to empower communities across the continent and abroad to care for land, culture and futures.
For millennia, Indigenous people around the world have cared for Country. This is a profound and reciprocal relationship that draws on timeless knowledge of lands and waters they are connected to.
Today, Firesticks is actively growing a network of Indigenous communities and practitioners to improve Country and community health and wellbeing. This is through the revitalisation and use of traditional knowledge systems and practices, including Cultural Burns.
Empowering communities to lead Cultural Burns helps create positive and sustainable outcomes that benefit everyone.
For the past decade, Firesticks has partnered with over 35 communities across the continent and abroad – sharing knowledge and empowering them to restore the cultural health and identity of their Country.
These collaborations demonstrate the power of Indigenous knowledge and approaches to heal landscapes, strengthen community wellbeing, and address critical environmental, biodiversity and climate issues.
Part of Firesticks’ growing network includes an International Knowledge Exchange program.
Through shared experiences, responsibilities and bonds with ancestral lands – these connections and exchanges shape solid and sustainable foundations.
To reignite ways of caring for Country globally and build capacity within communities, Firesticks isare actively working to revitalise these practices by sharing knowledge abroad.
These exchanges are significant in caring for Country by connecting Indigenous communities who have profound histories in using ‘right fire’. This is intrinsic for cultural practices and land management to both reduce risk of fire and promote healthy ecosystems.
Impacts of colonisation have also disrupted continuing practices existing for millennia through displacement and restricted access to land.These collaborations work to alleviate these barriers through positive approaches and support.
Over the past eight years, Firesticks has built a foundation of collaborative exchange with Yunesit’in people in Northern Turtle Island (Canada, British Columbia) which led to a historic gathering on Buluwai Country in July 2025.
The gathering brought together Indigenous fire practitioners to share cultural fire knowledge. This involved sharing practical and traditional fire and land management knowledge and conducting a Cultural Burn together on Buluwai Country.
We are a First Nations not-for-profit that exists to centre First Nations people, Country and truth-telling. We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
