Examples of Indigenous natural resource management
Groote Islandt, NT
Photo: Bruce Rose
These case studies provide examples of projects and activities being developed and implemented by Indigenous communities across Australia. They illustrate the broad range of opportunities for Indigenous communities to engage in natural resource management (NRM).
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
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Kakadu, NT
Photo: Bruce Rose
- Tasmania
- Torres Strait
- Victoria
- Western Australia
"I grew up learning from my four grandparents living out on country with them, learning about the kin and skin system, animals, plants, bushfoods, poison foods, where water could be found, the rockholes and soaks, water from plant, fire, clouds, rain, sun, moon, stars, stories and sites, songs, paintings, dancing and looking after country.
For us all of these things are interconnected and are all very sacred. Looking after country involves all of these things together...you can't have one without the other. Maintaining language and culture is a tool for relating to country and looking after everything that is on it. Aboriginal people belong to the country...the country owns them instead of them owning it".
Veronica Dobson, Eastern Arrernte Elder
Paper to National Land and Sea Management Conference. Alice Springs, 2005
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