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Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture
General Michael Jeffery
Allan Savory
Excerpts from Allan Savory's speech:
My university training as an ecologist had taught me that burning grasslands was essential. Every year we burnt millions of hectares to provide a green flush for the animals and to keep the African savannas healthy. In fact, we managed the landscape with fire – much as Aborigines did for thousands of years.
(In the Rhodesian War) I fought for twenty years and commanded a tracker combat unit – and so I spent literally thousands of hours tracking down my fellow countrymen.[1]