Rangers make a difference

Land and Sea Rangers make a difference. Through their varied work programs they undertake projects that deliver positive outcomes for their land and sea country, their communities, and their culture.

• Bunya Peoples’ Aboriginal Rangers working to revive ‘RightFire’ practices across their country and empower fire knowledge holders and practitioners.
• Butchulla Land and Sea Rangers are researching the threatened black-breasted button quail on K’gari, with unexpected benefits for Butchulla culture.
• Mandubarra Land and Sea Rangers are restoring a traditional fish trap on an island on the Great Barrier Reef and reconnecting with their cultural practices.
• Balnggarrawarra Melsonby Rangers are improving water quality in waterways by controlling soil erosion to recreate a resilient wetland ecosystem.
• Yirrganydji Land and Sea Rangers are taking part in unique coral reef restoration project to help rebuild the reefs that are important to their identity, heritage and livelihood.
• Gunggandji-Mandingalbay Yidinji Rangers are gaining skills in monitoring their sea Country to equip them protect and manage its environmental and cultural values.
• Jawajawa Rangers are using weed control methods to restore a bora ground cultural site on their Country to its original condition.
• Eastern Kuku Yalanji Rangers are supporting their communities through natural disasters, enhancing their capabilities along the way.
• APN Rangers are engaging their Junior Rangers in remote coastal cleanups and ghost net surveys to build local capability in Indigenous land and sea management.
• Gangalidda and Garawa Rangers are completing strategic training to support aerial feral pig control programs, conserving biodiversity in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
• Indjalandji-Dhidhanu Rangers are gaining skills in survey techniques to monitor the endangered Carpentarian grass wren in spinifex country.
• Laura Rangers are studying the elusive endangered freshwater sawfish, a culturally important species in southern Cape York Peninsula.
• Mithaka rangers are participating in scientific research across Mithaka country which is rewriting the history books.
• Wuthathi Custodians are monitoring the health and extent of seagrass meadows in their sea country to support management decisions.