Wunambal Gaambera
UUNGUU COAST, KIMBERLEY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
We, the Wunambal Gaambera people welcome you to our Country – Bianngaa graa winya.
We are the native title holders of 2.5 million hectares of graa (land) and wundaagu (saltwater), that is our Wunambal Gaambera Country, in the North Kimberley region of Australia.
We are following our Wunambal Gaambera Healthy Country Plan to help us look after our Uunguu, our cultural and natural assets and values, to pass, in tact, to future generations and share with visitors.
Our Healthy Country vision for the next ten years, is for us, Wunambal Gaambera people, to build our sustainable livlihoods and communal wealth on and from our healthy Country.
Our Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation represents us and our communal native title needs and interests.
Healthy Country
It is important for us to look after Country and to make sure our unique cultural and natural assets and values (our Uunguu) are kept healthy and passed onto future generations.
Visiting Country
The Uunguu Visitor Pass (UVP) is now required for road, air and coast visitors, enabling people to enjoy an authentic Uunguu Experience - sharing our unique culture, beautiful savannah and coastal landscapes.
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Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation were happy to host a recent visit from the WA Museum WA Museum Collections and Research Centre.
WA Museum scientists Mark Harvey, Nikolai Tatarnic, Kenny Travouillon and Jenelle Ritchie joined our Health Country Team of Uunguu Rangers and Wunambal Gaambera Traditional Owners including Jazzlyn Phillips, Taniayh Phillips, Damon Bundamurra, Derek Charles, Jeremy Kowan and Desmond Williams, Healthy Country Manager Tom Vigilante and Ranger Co-ordinator Shane Clugston. What a team!
During their visit and our work together, we visited monsoon vine thickets at Ngauwudu (Mitchell Plateau) and Bougainville Peninsula looking for pseudoscorpions, spiders, and assassin bugs as well as mammal trapping for bandicoots near Punamii- Uunpuu (Mitchell Falls).
Stay tuned for some of the outcomes later in the year!
WWF-Australia Australia's North West Bush Heritage Australia
Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories with us on Jar Island
Here’s another shot from WWF-Australia]] doing monitoring on the Islands. Helen Waina went out with our Healthy Country Manager Tom Vigilante and WWF-Australia]] to set up camera traps on some remote islands on Wunambal Gaambera Country.
Check out more from the WWF-Australia]] Instagram takeover for #WorldRangerDay
@bushheritageaus @kimberleylandcouncil @wilinggin_aboriginal_corp
We took over @wwf_australia Instagram page for World Ranger day! Flick over to their site to see what our Uunguu Rangers and Traditional Owners have been up to on Wunambal Gaambera Country!!!
#wwfaustralia #worldrangerday #healthycountry
happened this morning, our area🙁
Join us for our art tours at Munurru and enjoy our Wanjina Wunggurr culture.
Munurru is King Edward River campground in the Mitchell River National Park. We, the Wunambal Gaambera people are the Traditional Owners of this land. It is our job to protect and keep it healthy.
We ask that all visitors to our country buy an Uunguu Visitor Pass. These can be purchased on our website or at @drysdaleriverstation or @visitbroome or Derby Visitor Centre]
We look forward to welcoming you to our country. Purchase camping fees upon arrival at the campground.
Pictured Desmond Williams sharing our unique Wanjina Wunggurr culture at Munurru art site.
#wunambalgaambera #mitchellplateau #mitchellrivernationalpark #uunguu #visitorpass @waitoc @tourismcouncilwa @westernaustralia @kingfishertours @outbackspirittours Derby Visitor Centre] @bushheritageaus
We've had a few people ask what the Uunguu Visitor Pass (UVP) pays for and is it compulsory to purchase?
After decades of unfettered visits to our cultural sites, the UVP gives us and our ancestors a way of knowing who, when, where and how many people are visiting our Uunguu (“our living home”).
The UVP is permission by Wunambal Gaambera people for visitors to enter and stay on our Wunambal Gaambera country including National Parks (Mitchell River National Park, Prince Regent National Park and Lawley River National Park).
The UVP enables Wunambal Gaambera people to look after and share our land and saltwater country for future generations.
When you buy a UVP, you will be helping Wunambal Gaambera people achieve significant Wunambal Gaambera healthy country targets:
- Build leadership in the tourism industry.
- Establish managed visitor sites and facilities at key locations, with our Uunguu Rangers and Traditional Owners welcoming, guiding and sharing culture.
- Grow our Uunguu Ranger team's visitor management capacity.
- Provide cultural expertise and support for registered tour operators.
- Develop our own authentic "Uunguu Experience" tourism products and ventures.
- Expand, improve and maintain visitor access infrastructure and facilities to manage visitor impact and keep our country healthy.
You can purchase your UVP before entering our beautiful country here: wunambalgaambera.org.au/visitors/uunguu-visitor-pass/
We thank the public for your overwhelming support of our leadership in tourism on our Country and look forward to sharing an authentic cultural experience with all our visitors.
Image: Russell Ord
Kellie Tannock Russell Ord - Photography
Love it gotta care for country gotta know who is on it
I know your website says that visitors need to have had covid vaccinations. Can you please tell me if this includes children under 12 years old?
Anne Meredith Wylie
Our Uunguu Rangers and Traditional Owners doing rock art tours at Munurru (King EdwardRicer) Campground.
If you are travelling to our Wunambal Gaambera country be sure to buy your Uunguu Visitor Pass.
We are also looking for a Camp Manager at Munurru, view our website for details; www.wunambalgaambera.org.au or contact rachelbeadle@wunambalgaambera.org.au for more details.
We look forward to welcoming you to our country….
@bushheritageaus @kimberleylandcouncil @outbackspirittours @aptouring @kingfishertours @great_escape_cruises @ponant @kimberleyspirit @westernaustralia @australiasnorthwest @australia @waitoc @craigallen6
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Phairin Pollett 😎👍
Incredible Opportunity - North Kimberley Tourist Camp Manager 2022
Volunteer camp manager sought at Munurru- King Edward River campground.
Stay in the remote Kimberley. June - Sept. Enjoy warm weather. Swim in the billabong. Wake to bird song. Learn from Wunambal Gaambera people, their cultural stories, their country. Mentor, train and work alongside traditional owners.
Find out more: wunambalgaambera.org.au/north-kimberley-tourist-camp-manager-2022-volunteer/
Contact Rachel if you are interested or more info -
rachelbeadle@wunambalgaambera.org.au or 0439 288 235.
Rachel Beadle Yawuru Indigenous Carbon Industry Network Bush Heritage Australia WWF-Australia Country Needs People Grey Nomads Australia Parks Australia Australian Marine Parks The Margaret River Region Camping Australia Australia's North West Broome WA and Surrounds Community Group ABC Kimberley Visit Broome Derby Visitor Centre
We would love to do this…what an amazing opportunity. Unfortunately we travel with our kelpie
Wow, how good would that be!
This would be amazing, recently visited Munurru, and its a great spot. And to learn from the traditional owners would be fantastic.
Heading north Ellie awesome adventure
Rough road but worth the trip😎
That is you Kirst and bring Craig along for the ride 🤣
Deanne Wynn one day?
Mel J Reid
Caitlin Coad
Cherie
Pat Binney
Cianne Gough
Thomas Maluish
Ray Blick
Jeremy Harris
Lochy Allen
Mark Johnston
Micha Jackson 🤔
Tony Zofrea if only mate
Rose Becker
Kirsty Rayner what do you think?
Jason!!!!!
This is 🤩 for you Rijk 😉
Beautiful area.
Our right way fire program has started on Wunambal Gaambera country…
Did you know fire is our primary tool for keeping our country healthy?
We - our Uunguu Rangers and Wunambal Gaambera traditional owners, burn in the cooler early dry season using aerial and ground burning techniques. This is to help prevent damaging wildfires caused from lightning strikes in the hot season, Yuwala from spreading.
Since we started our right way fire program over 11 years ago, we have significantly reduced the amount of our country burnt by hot fires in the wet season.
In this photo, Desmond Williams is doing ground burning along a roadside at Ngauwudu (Mitchell Plateau).
#rightwayfire #kimberleyrangers #uunguurangers #fire #WildfirePrevention @bushheritageaus @wwf_australia @kimberleylandcouncil @indigenouscarbon @telstra @bankofqueensland @magabalabooks @abcindigenous @nitv_au @goolarrimedia @parkeerin
Solid budda Des! Lancho Davey Jasmine Rose Phillips Tanya Motohata Jai Williams Lovell Cresta Davey
Latest news
North Kimberley Tourist Camp Manager 2022 – Volunteer
Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC) is seeking a volunteer Camp Manager (individual or couple) from June – mid-September 2022 at Munurru (King Edward River) campground. Munurru Camp is situated on
Tracking Turtles on Wunambal Gaambera Wundaagu (sea country) is a Joint Effort
Mangguru (marine turtles) are important cultural foods especially for cultural gatherings. However presently, we (Wunambal Gaambera people) are concerned about threats to these species. It is our responsibility to look
2021 Fire Notice Wunambal Gaambera Country
Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation would like to advise you that prescribed burning will commence on 16 April and continue until 30 June conducted in accordance with the 2021 WGAC Annual
Wunambal Gaambera endorses Wuudagu Environmental Scoping Document
Perth based group VBX Limited (VBX) have prepared and submitted to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) a draft version of the Environmental Scoping Document (ESD) for the proposed Wuudagu bauxite