#indigenousaustralians — Public Fediverse posts
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Emotive debate on dingo, wild dog management in the spotlight amid inquiry
By Julia AndréA grazier is at his wits' end after losing $60,000 in sheep to dingo attacks in the past five years, but conservationists say killing the wild dogs is not the answer.
#Animals #AnimalAttacks #Conservation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AgriculturalPestControl #IndigenousAustralians #JuliaAndr
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Stolen Generations survivors have more health challenges than other First Nations people
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondentIndigenous Australians forcibly removed under government policies more likely to have severe or profound disability, report finds
#IndigenousAustralians #StolenGenerations #Health #Australianews #Inequality #TheGuardian #SarahCollardIndigenousaffairscorrespondent
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Mum-of-five repeatedly begged for medication in custody, inquest hears
By Kirstie WellauerA First Nations mother-of-five repeatedly begged prison officials for her medications and was discharged from hospital after a suicide attempt without a mental health review, a coronial inquest heard today. The inquest will look at whether the healthcare she received met community standards.
#BlackDeathsInCustody #IndigenousAustralians #Courts #KirstieWellauer
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$58m Aboriginal cultural centre opens at Darwin Waterfront
By George NicollA $58 million centre showcasing the culture, history and art of Darwin's traditional owners, the Larrakia people, has opened its doors to the public, more than two decades since the idea was first developed.
#IndigenousCulture #IndigenousAustralians #TravelandTourism #LibrariesMuseumsandGalleries #GeorgeNicoll
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Elder among last to remember Australia's forgotten 'parkland'
By Astrid VolzkeMenang elder Aunty Carol Petterson remembers when her family worked as shepherds, driving sheep through the bushland and along rivers towards the coast in southern Western Australia. Decades later, she recalls in vivid detail the natural abundance of the landscape.
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Indigenous dads challenging stereotypes this Father's Day
By Chris Murrkarany FitzpatrickIndigenous fathers say damaging stereotypes continue to shape how they are seen as parents, as advocates call for their strengths and contributions to families to be celebrated this Father's Day.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/celebrating-indigenous-dads-fathers-day/107116864
#Parenting #IndigenousAustralians #NTIntervention #ChrisMurrkaranyFitzpatrick
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Fred Hollows built something remarkable but its future is under threat
By Catherine James and Rachel KellySixty years after Fred Hollows ventured into the outback to save the sight of thousands, a devoted team of specialists fears the life-changing work he started might not survive if governments cannot see past a funding blind spot.
#Health #Eyes #Charities #IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #Volunteering #CatherineJames #RachelKelly
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NT government says no more ‘coddling criminals’ or ‘identity politics’ after experts walk out over ignored advice
By Douglas Smith Indigenous affairs reporterIndependent experts and organisations tasked with improving justice outcomes for First Nations people say Territorian government is not entering into ‘genuine partnership’
#IndigenousAustralians #NorthernTerritory #Australianews #Prisons #TheGuardian #DouglasSmithIndigenousaffairsreporter
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Canberra woman to receive $100k settlement over illegal strip search
By Jade ToomeyJulianne Williams sued the ACT government for damages after a court found the illegal strip search breached her human rights.
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Uneven distribution of class action payments causing havoc in Arnhem Land
By Oliver ChaselingAboriginal organisations in north-east Arnhem Land say they have been left to deal with the aftermath of a stolen wages class action that failed to include hundreds of potentially eligible claimants. One Yolŋu elder says he only found out about the class action after others received payments.
#Courts #WagesandBenefits #IndigenousAustralians #OliverChaseling
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'Grossly inadequate': NT traditional owners plan to mandate mine rehabilitation
By Jane BardonTraditional owners in the NT want to see more money put aside for the rehabilitation of closed mines and are considering making it a requirement of any agreement established between mine companies and traditional owners.
#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousAustralians #LandRights #JaneBardon
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Another plan unveiled to tackle long-standing issues in Port Augusta
By Arj GanesanThe state government has announced another plan to tackle issues regarding crime, violence and substance abuse in Port Augusta. The efforts have been praised by Indigenous leaders who say it is needed, but have criticised the lack of Indigenous consultation.
#SocialProblems #IndigenousAustralians #Crime #IndigenousPolicy #YouthCrime #RegionalCommunities #CommunityOrganisations #SubstanceAbuse #Drugs #Alcohol #IndigenousPeoples #ArjGanesan
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More than a third of prenatal reports to NSW protective services not investigated, ombudsman finds
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondentOther families have been unlawfully compelled to be case managed without consent, watchdog finds
#NewSouthWalespolitics #IndigenousAustralians #Health #NewSouthWales #Australianews #TheGuardian #SarahCollardIndigenousaffairscorrespondent
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More than a third of prenatal reports to NSW protective services not investigated, ombudsman finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/02/nsw-unborn-children-prenatal-caseworker-ombudsman-ntwnfb #NewSouthWalesPolitics #IndigenousAustralians #Health #NewSouthWales #AustraliaNews
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Rare photos found in attic shed light on Indigenous rights movement
By Alistair BatesThey waited in a Fremantle attic for decades. Now an anthropologist's snapshots of remote Australian history are about to see the light of day.
#History #IndigenousAustralians #FineArtPhotography #IndustrialAction #AlistairBates
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Aboriginal community still damaged, without services months after floods
By Joseph Hathaway-WilsonMonths after record flooding, the remote Aboriginal community of Nauiyu / Daly River remains significantly damaged and without services. Locals say some are still without power and little has been done to prepare for the next wet season.
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First Nations people with disability spending extended periods in custody, report finds
By Sarah RichardsThe Indigenous disability-led research is a national first, and examines the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability in Australia's justice system.
#IndigenousAustralians #BlackDeathsInCustody #Prisons #PeopleWithDisability #SarahRichards
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Blak & Bright Writers Festival rare public safe space for conversation
By Mawunyo GbogboPoet Evelyn Araluen says the Blak & Bright Writers Festival will provide a welcome reprieve from the often hostile online environments First Nations people deal with. The festival will take place in Naarm this week.
#CommunityandCulturalEvents #ArtsFestivals #Author #Books #IndigenousAustralians #ArtsEvents #MawunyoGbogbo
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Australian boxing great Tony Mundine dies aged 75
By Australian Associated PressFather of former boxer and NRL star Anthony Mundine succumbed to a heart attack on Sunday
#Boxing #Australianews #Sport #IndigenousAustralians #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress
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Australian boxing great Tony Mundine dies aged 75 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/31/australian-boxing-great-tony-mundine-dies-aged-75-ntwnfb #Boxing #AustraliaNews #Sport #IndigenousAustralians
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Birdsville's lone ranger retires after three decades as keeper of the desert
By Hannah WalshFor more than 30 years, Don Rowlands has been the ranger in charge of Munga-Thirri National Park, in Queensland's far south-west corner. But the time has come for him to hang up his uniform.
#IndigenousAustralians #NationalParks #History #RuralandRemoteCommunities #HannahWalsh
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Calls for better solutions as Kalgoorlie marks 10 years since protest
By Nicholas R Ward and Katrina TapA decade on from the unrest in the wake of an Aboriginal teen's death, some say not enough has been done to support young people in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
#IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #NicholasRWard #KatrinaTap
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How an escaped convict spent decades living with Indigenous Australians
By Hannah ReichPerhaps you're familiar with the phrase "Buckley's chance". Well, it's thought that it originates from William Buckley, a man who defied all odds to escape his fate as a convict.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/australian-history-william-buckley-escaped-convict/107017588
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Three boys crawled into a skip bin one night and by morning one was dead. How did it happen?
By Tory ShepherdA coronial inquest is examining the death of Indigenous 13-year-old Budda Spencer, who had for years been on the radar of South Australian police and child protection
#IndigenousAustralians #SouthAustralia #Australianews #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd
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Report finds rock art damage more extensive than thought
By Alistair Bates and Kimberley PutlandThe Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program finds pollutants from previous industrial activity have damaged a larger area of ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula than previously thought.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/pilbara-murujuga-rock-monitoring-report/107075210
#EnvironmentalImpacts #IndigenousAustralians #AirPollution #IndigenousCulture #Industry #AlistairBates #KimberleyPutland
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Gulf trucking company halt could force remote grocery price surge
By Tim LittleRemote grocery prices could surge and more than 70 jobs are at risk after a major Gulf freight company was grounded for compliance and safety issues.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/hawkins-transport/107075312
#Transport #IndigenousAustralians #RuralandRemoteCommunities #CostofLiving #TimLittle
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‘Enough is enough’: 121 Indigenous Victorians have died by suicide in the past five years
By Douglas Smith Indigenous affairs reporterRoyal commission recommended First Nations healing centres in 2021 but the Indigenous health service says the state has ‘done nothing’ to fund it
#IndigenousAustralians #Victoria #Australianews #Mentalhealth #Health #TheGuardian #DouglasSmithIndigenousaffairsreporter
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‘Enough is enough’: 121 Indigenous Victorians have died by suicide in the past five years https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/25/indigenous-australia-victoria-suicide-mental-health-ntwnfb #IndigenousAustralians #Victoria #AustraliaNews #MentalHealth #Health
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Researchers dodge crocs to probe coral bleaching after technology failed
By Tilda CollingResearchers confirm a 2024 coral bleaching event in remote, crocodile-inhabited Northern Territory waters was not picked up by the latest predictive technologies.
#Reefs #Oceans #MarineBiology #EnvironmentalHealth #EnvironmentalManagement #IndigenousAustralians #TildaColling
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Police inappropriately searched Aboriginal teen after mistaken gunpoint arrest
By Jade ToomeyThe ACT Ombudsman finds police inappropriately, and seemingly unlawfully, searched a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy after mistakenly arresting him at gunpoint on a bus in Canberra's south last year.
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Traditional owners relieved they won't have to watch another Juukan Gorge disaster
By Jay Carstens and Lachlan FordMining companies had believed Pilungah Reserve on Queensland's border with the Northern Territory held critical minerals. Now, three generations of traditional owners have gathered on country to celebrate its protection.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-23/wangkamadla-traditional-owners-pilungah-celebration/107056778
#Conservation #IndigenousAustralians #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #JayCarstens #LachlanFord
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Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
By Paul DaleyAustralia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
#Sydney #Slavery #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Race #Pacificislands #Vanuatu #Sugar #Colonialism #Queensland #Business #Australianbooks #Museums #Books #Shippingindustry #Forcedlabour #AsiaPacific #SouthPacific #TheGuardian #PaulDaley
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Supreme Court battle over traditional owner consultation pauses flood works
By Sarah Buchecker and Nethma DandeniyaThe Victorian government and a regional water authority have admitted they did not property consult with traditional owners before approving a controversial flood plain restoration project.
#EnvironmentalImpacts #IndigenousAustralians #IndigenousCulture #WaterSupply #SarahBuchecker #NethmaDandeniya
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#Australia - Concerns over #GreatArtesianBasin water impacts in new #BHP agreement
By Kathryn Bermingham, Thomas Kelsall
Sun 14 JunExcerpt: "#Environmentalists and #FirstNations groups say a new agreement between the #SouthAustralian government and BHP, set to be passed by state parliament this week, does not do enough to end water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin.
"They also say their concerns have not been taken seriously and that they have been shut out of the consultation process.
"The government announced last month it would introduce a bill to 'modernise' the #OlympicDam indenture — a legislated contract with BHP that governs mining operations.
"The updated indenture broadens BHP's #mining lease and removes caps on #copper production, paving the way for a potential major expansion.
"It also addresses water access, stipulating that BHP must stop drawing water from its Great Artesian Basin Wellfield A by 2036.
"But it allows continued access to BHP's other #wellfield, despite the concerns of #TraditionalOwners and environmentalists that extraction is damaging the local mound springs."
#AusPol #WaterIsLife #IndigenousAustralians #ExtractiveActivities #CopperMining
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#Australia - Online #racism is significantly affecting mental health, #FirstNations people say: ‘It’s like carrying a bully in your pocket’
Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a digital duty of care to prevent #SocialMedia #algorithms from incentivising ‘racist’ content
Douglas Smith and Sarah Collard
Fri 12 Jun 2026 11.00 EDTExcerpt: "Sam Bennell started a social media account to share his deep love of #Noongar culture and language. The 27-year-old gained nearly 10,000 followers in just a few months across Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, but says when he began sharing more of the traditional culture and language from south-west Western Australia he noticed a distinct change in the comments left under his posts.
" 'All the racists started commenting,' he says.
"He told Guardian Australia that his videos appeared to be pushed to a wider audience, which was attracting negativity. 'Facebook seems to be pushing my content to racists for some reason, which I don’t get,' he says. 'I haven’t been posting lately because it has been taking a toll on my mental health … all that online stuff is just crazy.' "
#AuntyLisa #Racism #IndigenousAustralians #AusPol #OnlineHarassment #SocialMediaAlgorithms #Incitement
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#Australia - #KatherineNT residents say potential damages from #PFAS firefighting foam case should pay for further 'recompense'
by James Elton, 1 June, 2026
Excerpt: "PFASContamination in Katherine was first announced by Defence in 2016 — the result of decades of use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam at #Tindal, which sits above a large and interconnected #aquifer.
"In the immediate aftermath, Katherine's town pool was closed and Defence trucked in bottled water.
"Commonwealth to sue the manufacturer of a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals that contaminated 28 #DefenceForce bases across Australia.
"A class action, settled in 2020, resulted in Defence paying $92.5 million to Katherine home owners and businesses to compensate for lost property value, as part of a broader class action that also included Williamtown in NSW and Oakey in Queensland.
"Today, Katherine's town drinking water supply is thoroughly treated using a specialised plant to keep PFAS levels below minimum thresholds.
"But residents with bores in the contamination zone are still advised not to drink their groundwater or eat eggs from chickens that drink water from the bores.
"A 2018 health assessment commissioned by Defence also found there was an 'elevated risk' for anyone who ate fish caught in the #KatherineRiver on a regular basis, defined as one fish per week.
"A Senate inquiry into the issue last year heard evidence that assessment had affected #Aboriginal people in the region, who had historically eaten large quantities and varieties of fish and crustaceans from the river."
#3MKnew #ForeverChemicals #PFAS #FirefightingFoam #FirstNations #KatherineNT #IndigenousAustralians #NorthernTerritory #WilliamtownNSW #OakeyQueensland #WaterIsLife #AusPol #TraditionalDiets #TraditionalFoodSources
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#Australia - ‘Gone forever’: political anger after #NSW #Aboriginal #HeritageSite bulldozed for power lines
The #RockShelter was destroyed by contractors building #TransmissionLines for the Central-West Orana #RenewableEnergyZone
Petra Stock
Wed 27 May 2026"#Indigenous community members have described their shock and anger after an Aboriginal rock shelter was 'damaged beyond recovery' by contractors building transmission lines for a #NewSouthWales renewable energy zone.
"The #HeritageSite was destroyed by bulldozers in March during the construction of access tracks for the #CentralWestOrana renewable energy zone, a transmission line project located about 300km north-west of #Sydney.
"The network company #Acerez, engaged by the state government to design, build and operate the infrastructure project, discovered the damage in May while undertaking due diligence checks.
"A company spokesperson said processes to protect the shelter 'were not fully implemented'.
" 'We are deeply sorry and apologise without reservation to the #TraditionalOwners and to the local community,' they said."
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Mother of Kumanjayi Little Baby asks politicians not to leverage child’s death: ‘My heart is broken into a million pieces’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/kumanjayi-little-baby-mother-politicians-ntwnfb #IndigenousAustralians #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #JacintaNampijinpaPrice #LidiaThorpe #PaulineHanson #NorthernTerritory
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Horrified Wagga residents call for proper sanitation at homeless camp where baby was found dead https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/06/wagga-homeless-camp-baby-found-dead-sanitation-ntwnfb #Inequality #Homelessness #NewSouthWales #AustraliaNews #RuralAndRegionalAustralia #IndigenousAustralians #Housing #Water #Environment #Health #Sanitation #Poverty #SocialExclusion
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‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal
Powered by individual donations and bequests, the country now has one of the world’s largest networks of privately protected and managed land
by James Norman, Fri 17 Apr 2026
Excerpt: "Over three decades later, #BushHeritage today owns and protects 45 bought or gifted bush reserves around #Australia – covering more than 1.4m hectares of land and providing habitat for over 9,000 native species. Working with #FirstNations communities and farmers, it supports the management of an additional 20.5m hectares beyond what it owns directly.
" 'Some of Australia’s most threatened and fragile #ecosystems and #wildlife sit outside of the national reserve system,' says Rachel Lowry, Bush Heritage Australia’s chief executive officer.
" 'They’re found on private land or pastoral country, and they may have deep cultural and ecological values, but they’re not protected from threats such as #LandClearing, #mining or #InvasiveSpecies.'
"The organisation reports a rise in the number of personal bequests, from 2,500 in 2022 to more than 4,600 bequests last year. Lowry puts the increase down to a personal desire to have a meaningful impact on the worsening global climate and #biodiversity crisis.
"Bush Heritage’s model has inspired other groups around Australia to acquire and conserve lands and forests of significant ecological value. One such example is the #NorthEastTasmania #LandTrust (#NETLT), which secretary Dr Christine Hosking describes as 'a microcosm of Bush Heritage'.
"Formed in 2009, the organisation manages donated land through weed control and regeneration of the native environment.
" 'Currently, we have 10 acres [4 hectares] of endangered eucalyptus forest in #BinalongBay that adjoins the #BayOfFires #Conservation Area, and a smaller patch of coastal habitat for the endangered swift parrot,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #LandConservation #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateCrisis #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheForests #Regeneration #PreserveNature #Conservationists #IndigenousAustralians #TraditionalLandManagement
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‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal
Powered by individual donations and bequests, the country now has one of the world’s largest networks of privately protected and managed land
by James Norman, Fri 17 Apr 2026
Excerpt: "Over three decades later, #BushHeritage today owns and protects 45 bought or gifted bush reserves around #Australia – covering more than 1.4m hectares of land and providing habitat for over 9,000 native species. Working with #FirstNations communities and farmers, it supports the management of an additional 20.5m hectares beyond what it owns directly.
" 'Some of Australia’s most threatened and fragile #ecosystems and #wildlife sit outside of the national reserve system,' says Rachel Lowry, Bush Heritage Australia’s chief executive officer.
" 'They’re found on private land or pastoral country, and they may have deep cultural and ecological values, but they’re not protected from threats such as #LandClearing, #mining or #InvasiveSpecies.'
"The organisation reports a rise in the number of personal bequests, from 2,500 in 2022 to more than 4,600 bequests last year. Lowry puts the increase down to a personal desire to have a meaningful impact on the worsening global climate and #biodiversity crisis.
"Bush Heritage’s model has inspired other groups around Australia to acquire and conserve lands and forests of significant ecological value. One such example is the #NorthEastTasmania #LandTrust (#NETLT), which secretary Dr Christine Hosking describes as 'a microcosm of Bush Heritage'.
"Formed in 2009, the organisation manages donated land through weed control and regeneration of the native environment.
" 'Currently, we have 10 acres [4 hectares] of endangered eucalyptus forest in #BinalongBay that adjoins the #BayOfFires #Conservation Area, and a smaller patch of coastal habitat for the endangered swift parrot,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #LandConservation #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateCrisis #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheForests #Regeneration #PreserveNature #Conservationists #IndigenousAustralians #TraditionalLandManagement
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‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal
Powered by individual donations and bequests, the country now has one of the world’s largest networks of privately protected and managed land
by James Norman, Fri 17 Apr 2026
Excerpt: "Over three decades later, #BushHeritage today owns and protects 45 bought or gifted bush reserves around #Australia – covering more than 1.4m hectares of land and providing habitat for over 9,000 native species. Working with #FirstNations communities and farmers, it supports the management of an additional 20.5m hectares beyond what it owns directly.
" 'Some of Australia’s most threatened and fragile #ecosystems and #wildlife sit outside of the national reserve system,' says Rachel Lowry, Bush Heritage Australia’s chief executive officer.
" 'They’re found on private land or pastoral country, and they may have deep cultural and ecological values, but they’re not protected from threats such as #LandClearing, #mining or #InvasiveSpecies.'
"The organisation reports a rise in the number of personal bequests, from 2,500 in 2022 to more than 4,600 bequests last year. Lowry puts the increase down to a personal desire to have a meaningful impact on the worsening global climate and #biodiversity crisis.
"Bush Heritage’s model has inspired other groups around Australia to acquire and conserve lands and forests of significant ecological value. One such example is the #NorthEastTasmania #LandTrust (#NETLT), which secretary Dr Christine Hosking describes as 'a microcosm of Bush Heritage'.
"Formed in 2009, the organisation manages donated land through weed control and regeneration of the native environment.
" 'Currently, we have 10 acres [4 hectares] of endangered eucalyptus forest in #BinalongBay that adjoins the #BayOfFires #Conservation Area, and a smaller patch of coastal habitat for the endangered swift parrot,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #LandConservation #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateCrisis #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheForests #Regeneration #PreserveNature #Conservationists #IndigenousAustralians #TraditionalLandManagement
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‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal
Powered by individual donations and bequests, the country now has one of the world’s largest networks of privately protected and managed land
by James Norman, Fri 17 Apr 2026
Excerpt: "Over three decades later, #BushHeritage today owns and protects 45 bought or gifted bush reserves around #Australia – covering more than 1.4m hectares of land and providing habitat for over 9,000 native species. Working with #FirstNations communities and farmers, it supports the management of an additional 20.5m hectares beyond what it owns directly.
" 'Some of Australia’s most threatened and fragile #ecosystems and #wildlife sit outside of the national reserve system,' says Rachel Lowry, Bush Heritage Australia’s chief executive officer.
" 'They’re found on private land or pastoral country, and they may have deep cultural and ecological values, but they’re not protected from threats such as #LandClearing, #mining or #InvasiveSpecies.'
"The organisation reports a rise in the number of personal bequests, from 2,500 in 2022 to more than 4,600 bequests last year. Lowry puts the increase down to a personal desire to have a meaningful impact on the worsening global climate and #biodiversity crisis.
"Bush Heritage’s model has inspired other groups around Australia to acquire and conserve lands and forests of significant ecological value. One such example is the #NorthEastTasmania #LandTrust (#NETLT), which secretary Dr Christine Hosking describes as 'a microcosm of Bush Heritage'.
"Formed in 2009, the organisation manages donated land through weed control and regeneration of the native environment.
" 'Currently, we have 10 acres [4 hectares] of endangered eucalyptus forest in #BinalongBay that adjoins the #BayOfFires #Conservation Area, and a smaller patch of coastal habitat for the endangered swift parrot,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #LandConservation #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateCrisis #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheForests #Regeneration #PreserveNature #Conservationists #IndigenousAustralians #TraditionalLandManagement
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‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal
Powered by individual donations and bequests, the country now has one of the world’s largest networks of privately protected and managed land
by James Norman, Fri 17 Apr 2026
Excerpt: "Over three decades later, #BushHeritage today owns and protects 45 bought or gifted bush reserves around #Australia – covering more than 1.4m hectares of land and providing habitat for over 9,000 native species. Working with #FirstNations communities and farmers, it supports the management of an additional 20.5m hectares beyond what it owns directly.
" 'Some of Australia’s most threatened and fragile #ecosystems and #wildlife sit outside of the national reserve system,' says Rachel Lowry, Bush Heritage Australia’s chief executive officer.
" 'They’re found on private land or pastoral country, and they may have deep cultural and ecological values, but they’re not protected from threats such as #LandClearing, #mining or #InvasiveSpecies.'
"The organisation reports a rise in the number of personal bequests, from 2,500 in 2022 to more than 4,600 bequests last year. Lowry puts the increase down to a personal desire to have a meaningful impact on the worsening global climate and #biodiversity crisis.
"Bush Heritage’s model has inspired other groups around Australia to acquire and conserve lands and forests of significant ecological value. One such example is the #NorthEastTasmania #LandTrust (#NETLT), which secretary Dr Christine Hosking describes as 'a microcosm of Bush Heritage'.
"Formed in 2009, the organisation manages donated land through weed control and regeneration of the native environment.
" 'Currently, we have 10 acres [4 hectares] of endangered eucalyptus forest in #BinalongBay that adjoins the #BayOfFires #Conservation Area, and a smaller patch of coastal habitat for the endangered swift parrot,' she says."
#SolarPunkSunday #LandConservation #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateCrisis #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheForests #Regeneration #PreserveNature #Conservationists #IndigenousAustralians #TraditionalLandManagement