Reading the Country is a series created by Warlpiri knowledge holders from the Northern and Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Ares with the Central Land Council.

Reading the Country is a series created by Warlpiri knowledge holders from the Northern and Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Ares with the Central Land Council.

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. …

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) …

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 …

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 …

“How do we get pigs out of the rainforest?” This is a critical question facing Kalan Rangers, based in Cape York Peninsula. In this video, Traditional Owner Dion Creek points out an example of how pigs can impact the biodiversity of tropical rainforests. While aerial culling …

In this video the Warddeken Rangers explain how to set up a camera trap methodology. Camera traps are a simple and effective way to understand what animals are on country.