From dreams to fire: How Aboriginal Australians shaped biodiversity

Humans have been influencing their surroundings since prehistoric times. They've changed the land, established crops, hunted and raised animals and collected plants from the wild. Humans are also blamed for the extinction of many species.

But for some species, human intervention was actually a good thing. It helped them thrive and spread across Australia.

Trees on the move

For a long time, the first inhabitants of this country have been considered hunter-gatherers. They weren't thought to be involved with the spread of other species, but the current distribution of some Australian native plants is hard to explain by natural processes.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-aboriginal-australians-biodiversity.html