Recent disasters such as the Black Summer bushfires and the Juukan Gorge destruction highlighted the need to put Indigenous people at the centre of decision-making about Australia’s natural places. But what’s the right way to combine traditional ancient wisdom with modern environmental management?
A project off Western Australia’s northwest coast offers a potential way forward. For the first time in the state’s history, Indigenous knowledge has been central to the design of a marine park.
The protected area will span 660,000 hectares northeast of Broome, taking in the stunning Buccaneer Archipelago and Dampier Peninsula. The area comprises thousands of small islands fringed by coral reefs and seagrass beds. The waters support a rich abundance of species such as corals, fish, turtles and dugongs, as well as humpback whales which give birth in the region.
Police investigate after bull left blind, cattle butchered on Kimberley cattle station
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Country Downs Station, near the Dampier Peninsula.
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A Kimberley station owner says he and his wife are shattered following the brutal killing of two cattle on his property on the weekend.
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Main Roads workers stumbled across the dead and butchered cow and blind bull on the weekend
Country Downs station owner Kurt Elezovich says the latest shooting is one in a spate of incidents
Police have asked anyone with information to contact them as soon as possible
Station owner Kurt Elezovich received a distressed call from a Main Roads crew working on the Broome-Cape Leveque Road about two of his animals.
WA marine park draft plan to protect traditional methods and cultural practices
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The Buccaneer Archipelago is used by traditional owners for hunting, tourists, and recreational and commercial fishers.
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A promise to turn a largely untouched marine area off the north-west coast of WA into a series of adjoining marine parks has reached its first major milestone with the draft management plan released for public comment.
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The draft management plans for the three long-awaited adjoining marine parks in north-west WA have been released
It s the first time a marine park has been co-designed with traditional owners in WA