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Understanding the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ knowledge and perspectives on Australian ecosystems

Torres Strait

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

Weather and seasons

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 videos

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Australian Aborigines

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

Library Resources

Fire Management

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

Traditional Ecological Knowledge TEK

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)

General Information

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