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 …

The Djarindjin Womens Rangers talk about their job, and what they do for the community.

In July 2021 the Kiwirrkurra rangers drove 2000km across from the Gibson Desert (WA) to the Gulf of Carpentaria (NT) to meet with the li-Anthawirriyarra sea rangers. This exchange was sponsored by the Indigenous Desert Alliance and enabled the two ranger groups to exchange …

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 …

Twenty-nine mammal species have become extinct since European settlement - more than 10% of Australia’s endemic mammal fauna. Native mammals have been in broad scale decline across northern Australia, however the mammal populations on Bathurst Island near Darwin in the …

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.

A large proportion of the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin in the Northern Territory, are burnt every year, releasing significant amounts of carbon dioxide and other Greenhouse gases into the air. Tiwi Islanders and CSIRO are working together on the Tiwi Carbon Study to develop a …

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 …