Healthy Land Ecosystems Torres Strait Regional Authority
Check sections under Key values and Case Studies.
Torres Strait State of the Environment report card. 2021 Use this link to download report includes: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, healthy marine ecosystems, seagrass meadows, dugongs, marine turtles, subsistence fishing and infographics.
Reef traditional owners Australian Government Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Traditional use of the Marine Park
Indigenous Weather Knowledge Bureau of Meteorology
Select a region, then open the calendar to explore information about birds, insects, fish, plants and fungi availability at different times of the year.
Indigenous seasonal calendars CSIRO (Terms and conditions prior to downloading calendars)
Six Seasons - Nyungar Life on the Coastal Plain People's Ocean Knowledge Trail of Cockburn Sound and Districts W.A.
Shifting seasons: using Indigenous knowledge and western science to help address climate change impacts The Conversation 2022
Clickview Playlist
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Central Land Council Alice Springs 2023
Ngurra Kurlangu: Our Home Select English. Includes bush medicine video with names printed on screen. (change to low quality if video doesn't load)
Map of the Northern Tanami N.T. within the map animals and land features are listed. (map may take time to load)
FISHTRAPS
Using drones to study extensive Aboriginal stone-walled fishtraps Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH)
Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps (Baiame's Ngunnhu) Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2021
Brewarrina Fish Traps (Baiame's Ngunnhu) NSW Government 2024
EELTRAPS
Gunditjmara people build Budj Bim eel trap system Deadly Story
On the tail of the eel ABC 2021
The Ancient Aboriginal Engineering of the Budj Bim Eel Traps Engineering Institute of Technology 2021
An Australian Stonehenge? Australian National Maritime Museum
Aboriginal Fish and Eel Traps Short student film about fishtraps at Lake Condah. 2013
Selected books and articles
Indigenous Fire Management Kimberley Land Council 2024
The Kimberley Land Council’s Indigenous fire management program is extremely important to the biodiversity of the environmentally significant Kimberley region. The website includes a video and a map.
The differences between hazard reduction burning and Cultural Fire practices Australian Museum 2020
Rachael Cavanagh is a Minyungbal woman, Mother and Cultural Land Practitioner and has worked in land management for 20 years.
What is cultural burning? Australian Museum 2024
Aboriginal fire stick farming: close-to-home carbon offsetting City of Sydney 2021
Right Country, Right Fire Firesticks. A podcast by Firesticks, Mulong and The Importance of Campfires, supported by Cape York Natural Resource Management.Recorded at the National Indigenous Fire Workshop 2018.
More cultural burns needed ahead of bushfire season, Indigenous practitioner warns ABC News 2023
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Atlas of Living Australia
The ALA’s Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) program of work recognises the essential nature of a collaborative approach, and aims to provide tools to enable and empower greater Indigenous participation in biodiversity information management and assessment, and to support other aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people related to ecological or biodiversity knowledge.
Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Ecological Knowledge National Park Service United States (Articles from this link relate to Australia)
Indigenous knowledge and land and sea management Australia State of the Environment (Australian Government)
How First Peoples Land Management Is Helping Conservation in Australia Earth Org 2023
Two-way Cultural Knowledge Systems and new eDNA techniques a success National Indigenous Australians Agency 2024
Joint project using DNA to identify animal species using water holes
Bunyip birds and brolgas: how can we better protect species important to Indigenous people? The Conversation September 2024