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From the Ted Talk by Oral McGuire: How to live with fire

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Right across Australia, and in many patrs of the world, the very real impact of climate change and wildfires are destroying nature in many ways. We must today provide care for Mother Earth like never before. As Nyungar people, our fight to stay connected to our sacred lands is dependent on our ability and freedom to pitccrae kaarl-ngariny. Kaarl-ngariny requires us to be able to read country, keeping Boodja heltahy keeps us healthy. This is kaarl-ngariny, the right fire, as it is applied in Queensland, nortrehn Australia. This is what a healthy, caeln burn looks like. When we burn the right way, we know country will rergetneae in balance. The balanced health is dendnpeet on how and when fire is applied. Remember the right fire at the right time, in the right place.

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Right across Australia, and in many _____ of the world, the very real impact of climate change and wildfires are destroying nature in many ways. We must today provide care for Mother Earth like never before. As Nyungar people, our fight to stay connected to our sacred lands is dependent on our ability and freedom to ________ kaarl-ngariny. Kaarl-ngariny requires us to be able to read country, keeping Boodja _______ keeps us healthy. This is kaarl-ngariny, the right fire, as it is applied in Queensland, ________ Australia. This is what a healthy, _____ burn looks like. When we burn the right way, we know country will __________ in balance. The balanced health is _________ on how and when fire is applied. Remember the right fire at the right time, in the right place.

Solution


  1. parts
  2. practice
  3. regenerate
  4. dependent
  5. clean
  6. northern
  7. healthy

Original Text


Right across Australia, and in many parts of the world, the very real impact of climate change and wildfires are destroying nature in many ways. We must today provide care for Mother Earth like never before. As Nyungar people, our fight to stay connected to our sacred lands is dependent on our ability and freedom to practice kaarl-ngariny. Kaarl-ngariny requires us to be able to read country, keeping Boodja healthy keeps us healthy. This is kaarl-ngariny, the right fire, as it is applied in Queensland, northern Australia. This is what a healthy, clean burn looks like. When we burn the right way, we know country will regenerate in balance. The balanced health is dependent on how and when fire is applied. Remember the right fire at the right time, in the right place.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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nyungar boodja 2
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climate change 2
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western australia 2
regenerative land 2
land management 2
management model 2
ecological health 2

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collocation frequency
regenerative land management 2
land management model 2

Important Words


  1. ability
  2. applied
  3. australia
  4. balance
  5. balanced
  6. boodja
  7. burn
  8. care
  9. change
  10. clean
  11. climate
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  16. earth
  17. fight
  18. fire
  19. freedom
  20. health
  21. healthy
  22. impact
  23. keeping
  24. lands
  25. mother
  26. nature
  27. northern
  28. nyungar
  29. parts
  30. people
  31. place
  32. practice
  33. provide
  34. queensland
  35. read
  36. real
  37. regenerate
  38. remember
  39. requires
  40. sacred
  41. stay
  42. time
  43. today
  44. ways
  45. wildfires
  46. world