Working on Country funded projects
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1. Ngaanyatjarra Working on Country project
Ngaanyatjarra Council Aboriginal Corporation
Photo by Rodney Edwards
Ngaanyatjarra lands cover an area of 98,000 square kilometres, including sections of the Gibson, Great Sandy and Great Victoria Deserts. The Ngaanyatjarra Council Aboriginal Corporation's Working on Country project will help implement the Ngaanyatjarra Indigenous Protected Area Plan of Management and move five Indigenous workers involved in land and culture management into real jobs. These Indigenous workers will provide a range of essential environmental services in the region including field trips to identify the status and implement management needs for threatened species such as rock wallaby, great desert skink and bilby populations; implementing fire management processes; cleaning and maintaining rock holes to provide clean, fresh water for a range of native fauna; managing the impact of feral pests such as foxes and camels; supporting traditional ecological knowledge and cultural activities; and continuing to develop tourist management strategies including interpretative works.
2. Kimberley Rangers Working on Country project
Courtesy of Bardi Jawi Rangers.
The Kimberley Land Council's Working on Country project will provide environmental services that cover almost 137,000 square kilometres of land, including more than 1,800 kilometres of coastline. The project will employ 20 Indigenous people on activities including: a weed eradication program to protect threatened ecological communities; land rehabilitation including seed collection and sowing native plants in degraded areas; fire management; monitoring and managing turtle and dugong numbers and habitats; monitoring seagrass beds; cleaning marine debris from beaches; monitoring river water quality; controlling feral pigs, cats, horses and cattle; monitoring threatened species; managing remnant rainforest; recording visitor data; protecting important cultural sites; and monitoring significant marine and reef sites.
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