Palmerville
- Ranger team
- Western Yalanji Rangers
- Host organisation
- Western Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation
The Western Yalanji rangers play an important role in caring for their traditional country around Palmerville Station in central-south eastern Cape York Peninsula.
Their priorities include:
- monitoring and controlling feral animals and weeds and undertaking wildlife surveys
- undertaking fire management in consultation with Elders
- monitoring mining activity on Western Kuku-Yalanji land and river Country
- clearing, monitoring and maintaining of vehicle tracks, Bama walking tracks, springs, wells, waterways and other sacred places in consultation with Elders; and assisting with cultural heritage surveys and recording
- supporting cultural camps and educating the community, tourists and school children about the Western Kuku-Yalanji Indigenous Land Use Agreement and ranger program.