Senior traditional owners have tasked the North Tanami Ranger group with implementing their land management aspirations and priorities. Traditional land management has been coupled with work directed at addressing contemporary land management issues. To date ranger group …

Our plants video is about the importance of plants to Yapa and Kardiya, what plants are in the Northern Tanami IPA, how to look after them, what threatens them and which skin group is responsible to look after these plants. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) …

This video highlights the rangers' skill in motoring water places in contract-based environmental service delivery work for mining companies. Ranger activities include burning, waterhole management, feral animal and weed control, cultural site protection, recording of …

IPA in English stands for an ‘Indigenous Protected Area’. The Australian Government made the IPA program to help Aboriginal people from all over Australia to look after country for the benefit of all Australians. An IPA looks after the plants, animals and cultural sites for …

This video explores the integration of traditional ecological knowledge into contemporary land management practices. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for …

Tracking the black headed python, cooking it and using it as a bush medicine. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. The brief was to …

How to make bush medicine Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. The brief was to create a lush digital resource using spoken Warlpiri …

Luckily, the majority of the IPA is free of weeds, especially sandhill and rocky hill country. At water places or access tracks, weeds can come in. Most weeds are found close to Lajamanu and near outstations. Too many weeds mean that native plants decline. In weed areas, fires …

Since Yapa stopped walking their country, many changes have occurred. These changes include the introduction and proliferation of feral animals and weeds species, altered fire regimes and changes in water quality at important wetlands due to feral animal impacts. Cats and foxes …

Yapa have gained an intimate and intricate understanding of the ecology of country in the IPA through thousands of years of observation and practice. Learn about our animals and who looks after them. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed …

Changed fire regimes represent the single greatest threat to the cultural and ecological values of the IPA. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking …

Let's talk about the use of fire in the old days and remember the skills. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. The brief was to …

Kamira is an important water place and camping spot for Yapa. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. The brief was to create a lush …

Our water places are special, for our Jukurrpa and for all Yapa including plants and animals. Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. …

After 70 years, our special place Kurlpurlunu has been found again by Yapa. PAW Productions filmed this exciting discovery. Previous attempts to find the Tanami Desert site, known as Kurlpurlunu, had proved fruitless until Warlpiri elders, George Jungarrayi Ryder and Molly …

Underpinning the significance of the Northern Tanami IPA to Kardiya are its remoteness and the vast scale of the area’s relatively intact landscapes in which desert and tropical ecosystems are juxtaposed. The IPA is a refuge for desert species at the northern extent of their …

In the past, before kardiya came to Australia, yapa looked after their country well. They walked over the country, they knew all the plants and animals, they knew their Jukurrpa (Dreaming) and they knew the Milarpa. They knew their country and the country knew them. They sang …

Traditional owners worked alongside CLC staff over 15 years to plan and implement management of the Northern Tanami IPA which was declared at a ceremony in Lajamanu in 2007. A management committee oversees planning and decision making for all aspects of the IPA. Membership …

This country is strong and will remain strong for us. It is alive in spirit. Country always welcomes us and reminds us that we are family. We have the responsibility to look after our father’s and mother’s country by following the Law. We don’t make the Law; our Law is …

In August 2018, around 30 Aboriginal elders and CLC rangers from remote communities across central Australia met at the Central Land Council in Alice Springs. Some of the elders were among the last Aboriginals people who grew up living off the land. They talked to the CLC …