Palmerville
- Ranger team
- Western Yalanji Rangers
- Host organisation
- Western Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation
The Western Yalanji rangers care for their traditional country around Palmerville Station in central-southeastern Cape York Peninsula. They strive to protect, preserve and promote Western Yalanji Country, Culture and Community.
Western Yalanji rangers’ work includes:
- monitoring and managing threatened species (Northern bettong and northern spotted quolls) through camera traps and relocation trapping
- identifying, monitoring and controlling weeds (grader grass, rubbervine and Guinea grass)
- protecting cultural heritage sites from the impacts of tourists and feral cattle and horses through fencing, and ongoing monitoring
- undertaking fire management in consultation with Elders as part of their Carbon abatement plan, and monitoring the effectiveness of cultural burning
- clearing, monitoring and maintaining vehicle tracks, Bama walking tracks, springs, wells, waterways and other sacred places in consultation with Elders
- managing visitor and other user impacts through compliance and education activities and patrols, signage and vehicle and machinery inspections
- supporting cultural camps on-country for young people and delivering community engagement activities to share knowledge about country and the ranger program.