Projects – Rangers make a difference

Reef and sea Country

• 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.
• Gunggandji-Mandingalbay Yidinji Rangers are gaining skills in monitoring their sea Country to equip them protect and manage its environmental and cultural values.
• Culturally significant oyster reef installation at the heart of wetland restoration project on Woppa
• Mapoon Rangers remove tonnes of marine debris to protect wildlife and preserve coastal ecosystems
• Rangers work in partnership to restore ecological and cultural integrity across islands
• Wuthathi Custodians are monitoring the health and extent of seagrass meadows in their sea country to support management decisions.
• 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.

Conservation and habitat restoration

• Protecting platypus populations on Djabugay Country
• Jinibara Freshwater Rangers help to restore habitat and protect koalas and their ecosystems
• Restoring critical Mary River Cod habitats using salvaged timber on Kabi Kabi Country
• 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

Country and cultural heritage

• Protecting the iconic Bunya Pines with traditional knowledge and innovative techniques
• Mithaka rangers are participating in scientific research across Mithaka country which is rewriting the history books.
• Jawajawa Rangers are using weed control methods to restore a bora ground cultural site on their Country to its original condition.