We are pleased to be hosting the SOLD OUT North Australia Savanna Fire Forum from 18-20 February 2025 on Larrakia Country, Darwin. 500 attendees are coming, representing over 110 organisations. 2025 will be the seventh year of the North Australia Savanna Fire Forum, an important annual event facilitating knowledge sharing and improved understanding and practice within the growing, successful and important Indigenous carbon industry.

Location: Darwin Convention Centre; Theme: Savanna Fire Management: Delivering results for people and planet. 

The Network is proud to be hosting the 7th annual North Australia Savanna Fire Forum on Larrakia Country – Australia’s leading savanna fire forum. This Forum is important for bringing the Network, land managers, Traditional Owners, diverse research partners and government and corporate representatives, together, to meet face-to-face and share knowledge. In 2025 the Forum has once again sold out, with 500 people coming from across Australia. Indigenous organisations make up 65% of all tickets. The Network’s 23 Full Members and six Associate Members are in attendance and Indigenous organisations beyond the Network as well. At last count there were 110 different organisations represented at the Forum," said Cissy Gore-Birch OAM, Co-Chair ICIN and Fire Forum MC.  

Key highlights of the Forum include: 

• Tuesday Morning: Registrations/Smoking Ceremony (8:00am)
• Tuesday Morning: Keynote Address: Prof Henrietta Marrie (9:45am)
• Tuesday Morning: North Australia Fire Information (NAFI) service overview of 2024 Fire Season (10:00am)
• Tuesday Morning: Panel: What does success look like? (11:00am)
• Tuesday Afternoon: Fire Managers from across North Australia Report Back (2pm)
• Tuesday Afternoon: Selena Uibo, Leader of the Opposition (4:30pm)
• Wednesday Morning: Hon Joshua Burgoyne, Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment (8:45am)
• Wednesday Morning: Fire Managers from across North Australia Report Back (9:00am)
• Thursday Morning: Hon Josh Wilson MP, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy (8:45am)
• Thursday Morning: FIELD TRIP: Aerial Burning Demonstration (Darwin Rural Area) (dept 9:15am for 9:45am arrival)

Full details of the Forum are available here: https://www.icin.org.au/2025_savanna_fire_forum.

The carbon projects owned by our member organisations are homegrown, they are created and driven by Indigenous people from those project areas. These projects are not just economic ventures—they are deeply cultural, requiring an understanding of cultural processes and protocols. We are protecting our cultural objects and our livelihoods on Country, so we have that education available to our communities. Our people are now putting back their efforts on to the land, to learn from the land," said Dr Dean Yibarbuk, Co-Chair ICIN.  

The full Forum Program is available here.

Savanna fire management in north Australia has proven to be delivering remarkable success in terms of avoiding climate pollution. Detailed research studying satellite imagery shows hot, late-season fires have declined across nearly three-quarters of the land surface of the north Kimberley since Indigenous burning regimes were adopted a decade ago. Indigenous-led savanna fire projects support economic self-determination, recognise Indigenous knowledge, generate jobs in very remote areas, and uplift entire communities with carbon revenue-funded initiatives. 

Please reach out to Clare Price [email protected] or 0879428151 and [email protected] with any questions.