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.

Buffel Grass is the worst weed to affect Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) communities, cultural sites and the wonderful biodiversity of the northern South Australian desert. Learn about the threat to conservation and culture the devastating spread of buffel is causing …

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 …

Billiluna is well known for its magnificent wild horses and is on the back foot fighting for their survival as weel as their refreshing water hole Nyanar (Lake Stretch) where they spend most of the time with their families

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 …

Kanyirninpa Ngurrara is the Martu land management program that is operated by Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa (KJ). The Martu are the traditional owners and native title holders for 13.6 million hectares of the Western Desert. The Martu have managed their country for thousands of years …

Fire keeps country healthy. Martu have used fire for thousands of year. Today Martu rangers use both traditional and contemporary natural resource management fire techniques to look after country. This video shows how rangers can keep safe when putting fire in country

The Tiwi Islands are home to threatened mammals like the brush-tailed rabbit-rat. The Tiwi Land Rangers are working with scientists from Charles Darwin University on research to monitor mammals while they utilise traditional cool burn strategies, which reduce bushfires and …