1.Ngarrindjeri Working on Ruwe (Country)

The Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association manages 20 square kilometres of land, including 30 kilometres of coastline along the Coorong and the Lower Murray Lakes. The Working on Country contract will involve six Indigenous people being employed to conduct work within a Ramsar wetland of international significance. Activities will include reducing the impact on endangered species by managing feral animals including foxes, cats and rabbits; removing significant weed infestations; implementing an active revegetation program including seed collection, propagation and direct seeding; monitoring and managing lakefront and waterfront areas for erosion and cultural impact; and managing cultural heritage.

2. Raukkan Natural Resource Management project

The Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation, located at Raukkan on Lake Alexandrina near the Coorong and Murray Mouth in South Australia, will rehabilitate at least 4.5 square kilometres of land in the area, while protecting culturally sensitive sites. The land lies within a Ramsar-wetland of international importance. Through their Working on Country contract, the Corporation will employ five Indigenous people to provide a range of environmental services, including: revegetating large areas of the wetlands and surrounding land; providing long-term control of environmental weeds such as boxthorn and artichoke thistle; re-establishing off-shore reed beds to prevent erosion; re-snagging the wetlands and lake edge with trees for fish habitat; stabilising and revegetating eroding dunes, reinstating historical water flow connections; ongoing monitoring of flora, fauna and water quality; protecting culturally sensitive sites; and practicing traditional cultural land management activities.

1. Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Ranger Program

The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in the north-west corner of South Australia cover almost three million hectares. The area includes plants listed as vulnerable at a national level and a number of species listed nationally as threatened including black-footed wallabies, great desert skinks, mallee fowl, marsupial moles and their core habitats. The APY Lands are also culturally important as an area of unbroken occupation by Anangu. Through a Working on Country contract, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Incorporated will employ Indigenous people to undertake important environmental activities. These will include habitat protection and wildfire suppression by increasing patch burning, monitoring and controlling predators, improving visitor management, linking with research projects on threatened species, securing water supplies by maintaining rock holes and constructing shed tanks, and sharing traditional ecological knowledge and practice with younger Anangu by having mentors and young people work together on these activities.

2. A region built on pride of country - Maralinga Tjarutja

The Maralinga Tjarutja Council administers an area of western South Australia that is the traditional country of the Maralinga Tjarutja people. The area has great cultural significance and is environmentally important as it includes pristine arid wilderness that is recognised as a World Biosphere Reserve. Through a Working on Country contract, Indigenous people will be employed to conduct traditional land management programs in the area. Activities will include cleaning and restoring important rock-holes, eradicating feral animals and weeds, patch burning to restore natural flora habitats, and extensive surveys and mapping of new species of plants discovered in the region.

3. Yalata IPA Ranger Program

The Yalata Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) at the head of the Great Australia Bight represents the largest unbroken tract of coastal mallee/woodland vegetation in the world. Yalata lands also include a number of culturally significant sites that have been managed by the Traditional Owners, the Yalata Anangu. The area is threatened not only by feral pests and weeds, but by inappropriate tourist activity. Under its Working on Country contract, the Yalata community will employ Indigenous people to undertake activities outlined in a coastal action plan and natural resource management plan. These will include collecting seeds for revegetation, removing debris from beaches, controlling pests and weeds, fencing and maintaining campsites, and managing visitor access to sensitive coastal areas.

1. Working on our Yarta in the Northern Flinders Ranges

This Working on Country project will be implemented on the Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area (the first Indigenous Protected Area).

Nantawarinna spreads across 58,000 hectares of rugged terrain between the Flinders Ranges and Gammon Ranges National Parks in South Australia. It is a key attraction for visitors as they pass through the ranges.

The rangers' work will include a focus on cultural and ecological conservation using both traditional knowledge and modern land management practices. They will survey, monitor, map and record the natural and cultural values of the property.

Previous land management practices have damaged the land and feral animals pose a major challenge. The rangers will implement a threat abatement plan to reduce or eradicate weed and feral animal populations.

Nantawarrina is of great cultural significance as a birthplace, traditional tribal territory and a place of mythologically important sites. The rangers' work will encompass revegetation and rehabilitation of landscapes intrinsic to the wellbeing of the community.

2. Caring for Warru in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands

The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands is a large Aboriginal local government area located in the remote north-west of South Australia.

Over the next five years, Anangu will build up to two teams of rangers to provide environmental services. Their land management plan will have a particular focus on a recovery plan for the threatened and culturally significant Warru - the black-flanked rock wallaby and the surrounding ecological communities and habitats. This species is listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Not only will the rangers monitor Warru colonies, they also aim to control feral predators and control buffel grass across the country.

An important part of this project is to educate the young people about the rangers' environmental works and to maintain culture through sharing the important role of the rangers whilst they care for country.