Aboriginal Collaboration Case Studies
Aboriginal Collaboration Case Study Series
Gondwana Link Connections Art Program
“A Noogar –Wadjella collaboration bringing culture, art and environment together”
What began as an eco-restoration program in Western Australia’s biodiversity hotspot has evolved into a cultural collaboration. Gondwana Link’s vision is restoring ecological connectivity across the south-western corner of Australia. Respect for the skills and culture of the first land managers of this country are an integral part of this landscape scale program. Green Skills has been one partner in the landscape scale Gondwana Link.
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Sharing the Nyungar Calendar
“Nyungar elders telling their stories”
Basing our communications around the six Nyungar seasons not only raised awareness of Nyungar culture, but also made huge sense from a farming perspective. Nyungar seasons are not set dates like our European ones. They start and end based on what is observed in nature. This has had huge application for agriculture and is helping farmers to adapt to our changing climate.
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Danju -Working Together
“Building additional skills and providing job opportunities for local Noongar people”
Danju – Jobs Together is an aboriginal collaboration that is building additional skills and providing job opportunities for local Noongar people in the Leschenault region. The Project began in 2017 as a concept to include Noongar people in landcare work being carried out by the Leschenault Catchment Council within the catchment.
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Wooditjup Bilya Protection Strategy
“Working together to maintain the ecological health of the Margaret River”
Bringing stakeholders to the table to manage the Margaret River has been a vision of Nature Conservation Margaret River Region for many years. With the completion of the Wooditjup Bilya Protection Strategy in 2019 the group saw, not only its vision for the river realised, but also the emergence of a successful collaboration with the traditional custodians of the river, the local Wadandi people.
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Collaborations in the Wheatbelt
“Building relationships with our Noongar community”
Wheatbelt NRM has a long history of building relationships with the Noongar community of the Wheatbelt. Through their Noongar Elders Advisory Group, Aboriginal school-based traineeships, Mooditj Boodjar website and the Noongar Budjar Rangers aboriginal engagement and collaboration is kept strong in the Wheatbelt.
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Environs Kimberley’s Nature Project
“13 years of collaborating with Aboriginal Rangers to look after country in the Kimberley’
Our right-way collaboration model has been successful as it is respectful, places equal value on both partners’ priorities and knowledge systems, works with individuals’ strengths, and recognises that Aboriginal people have chief responsibility for their country and culture.
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NACC’s Aboriginal Women Conservation Team
“Providing opportunities for women to re-enter the workforce, give back to country and get started with careers’
It’s incredible to see the motivation and enthusiasm of the women to support each other and set an example for younger generations to embrace opportunities and get involved in similar programs.
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Nowanup
“Healing Country, Healing People”
Right from the beginning, the Healing Country, Healing People program at Nowanup has been a strong collaboration between Greening Australia, Gondwana Link, Friends of Nowanup and the Noongar community. Eugene Eades, the key custodian at Nowanup has said: “It’s like the spirit of the land pulled us all into line and told us to do it together.”