Aboriginal hunting practice increases animal populations Date: October 24, 2013 Source: Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Summary: In Australia's Western Desert, Aboriginal hunters use ...

By examining how an Aboriginal Australian community have shaped their land through traditional hunting, they present an example where it’s not all bad to have humans around. “We can still see ...

Hunters are often thought of as bad for wildlife, but scientists have recently found that Aboriginal hunters in Australia actually boosted certain lizard populations by improving the locales where ...

For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines have lit fires ... [sand monitor lizard] populations are higher where Aboriginal hunting is most intense,” a December 2013 study found.