Working on Country funded projects
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Funding Round 1
Preminghana Indigenous Protected Area
Photo by Barbara Bell
1. Protecting and enhancing land managed by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land and Sea Council
The Tasmanian Land and Sea Council manages more than 565 hectares of land in Tasmania, including six kilometres of coastline. The areas include Preminghana Indigenous Protected Area, a property in north west Tasmania that contains significant heritage places and rock engravings and Saltwater River on the Tasman Peninsula. The Council's Working on Country contract will involve Indigenous workers providing a range of essential environmental services in these areas. Among these are removing weeds and feral pests; improving habitat for the threatened skipper butterfly; revegetating to improve dune areas; protecting wetland areas; improving visitor facilities; and getting back to country.
2. Milaythina pakana
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre manages more than 1430 hectares of land in Tasmania across Mt Chappell and Badger Islands, Oyster Cove and Risdon Cove Indigenous Protected Areas. Under the Working on Country contract, the Centre will employ Indigenous people to address major land management challenges. Activities will include addressing land degradation through revegetation and rehabilitation and reducing soil and water salinity; managing Aboriginal heritage places; controlling and eradicating weeds and feral pests while managing threatened species and improving habitat; managing fire regimes; managing visitor access points; and conducting environmental research.
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