Caring for country creates new land of opportunity
New conservation partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are saving threatened animals, returning Aboriginal people to their ancestral homeland, discovering new types of plant species and developing novel cross-cultural ways of managing country.
The inspiring projects have been featured in a special issue of the Australasian journal Ecological Management & Restoration, released yesterday and guest edited by Dr Emilie-Jane Ens from The Australian National University. The ecologist from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic and Policy Research at ANU says that the new partnerships represent some of Australia’s most successful land and water management efforts.