Kakadu park rangers and traditional owners burning in the Top End's wet season

Jawoyn traditional owner Bessie Coleman oversees a wet-season burn at Kakadu National Park. (ABC Rural: Max Rowley)

Among the green, wet-season growth of Kakadu National Park's savanna woodlands, Bessie Andudjimi Coleman is speaking to her ancestors.  

"[Telling] our old people that we're coming back on country to burn and clean the country, and to watch [over] our young people," she says.