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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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
Prescribed burning benefits threatened mammals in northern Australia
Ian J. Radford, Leigh-Ann Woolley, Ben Corey, Tom Vigilante, Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation, Ed Hatherley, Richard Fairman, Karin Carnes & Antony N. Start August 2020, Biodiversity and Conservation 29(7)DOI: 10.1007/s10531-020-02010-9 Despite substantial investment in prescribed burning for biodiversity conservation there has
Regional Assessment of the Conservation Status of Snubfin Dolphins (Orcaella heinsohni) in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia
Phil J. Bouchet, Deborah Thiele, Sarah A. Marley, Kelly Waples, Frank Weisenberger, Balanggarra Rangers, Bardi Jawi Rangers, Dambimangari Rangers, Nyamba Buru Yawuru Rangers, Nyul Nyul Rangers, Uunguu Rangers and Holly
Argurla….
In our Wanjina Wunggurr culture, Argurla is often spoken of in our stories of creation and in our daily lives as we walk Country.
Argurla is a tricky spirit, sometimes bad, occasionally humorous, who reminds people not to steal or to wander into someone else’s camp. There are many stories to remind children to stay near camp and follow the rules.
This Argurla pictured is found at Munurru (King Edward River) campground, one of our visitor locations on Wunambal Gaambera country. During the tourist season, Traditional Owners and Uunguu Rangers do tours of our cultural sites, sharing our unique Wanjina Wunggurr culture.
You can find out more about our culture in a book we wrote with Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation, We Are Coming to See You, which shares our people’s stories of our cultural (rock art) sites.
Buy our book online or at @mowanjum_arts in Derby @magabalabooks or @kimberleybookshop in Broome.
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Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC) was pleased to host our North Kimberley Fire Abatement Project (NKFAP) Partners on Wunambal Gaambera Country at Garmbemirri Ranger Base last week.
In addition to fire project operations, best practice, broader market developments and method considerations, the workshop focused on fire mapping and monitoring work undertaken in collaboration with WWF Australia and Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research.
It included a demonstration of a 3D visualisation tool by Rohan Fisher and fine-scale habitat mapping undertaken by Sofia Oliveira.
This work will help us keep country healthy by having new tools and technology for looking after important animals and plant communities with fire, and to demonstrate the progress we are making.
NKFAP is made up of 4 native title groups with fire carbon projects: Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation, Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation, Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation, and is supported by the Kimberley Land Council.
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Rohan Fisher and Sofia Oliviera. Techno-savants!
Have you got a business, or want to set one up in northern Australia?
Funding has been announced, see here if relevant: https://mailchi.mp/e2358fe43bd3/…
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Last week we had our annual meeting with UMEC (Uunguu Monitoring and Evaluation Committee) at Mungalalu, Truscott to review our healthy country work. This year we did a 10 year review of our Healthy Country Plan (2010-2020), which included some days with UMEC members and also Traditional Owner workshops.
UMEC is made up of Wunambal Gaambera Traditional Owners and independent scientists and partners who provide expert advise across their relevant disciplines. Each year we have a meeting to monitor and check on our Healthy Country Plan progress, our meeting this year was slightly different. It went for several days as we reviewed our Healthy Country Plan and planned our work for the next ten years.
We participated in workshops and presented on the work we have done over the past year and years before that.
Thank you to everyone involved and we look forward to sharing some of the outcomes soon.
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Munurru Campground
(King Edward River) closes
15th Oct 2021- April 2022.
Ngauwudu Road Zone on Wunambal Gaambera Country, Kimberley Western Australia will be closed to visitors from 15th October until April 2022.
Uunguu Visitor Passes are not valid for travel during this period.
We look forward to welcoming you next season.
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What's the coolest and least humid month for a Victorian to come up and visit?
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Young fellas learning and sharing stories from our old people at Munurru (King Edward River Campground).
Feels good being on country.
Come and visit our country and find out more about our Wanjina Wunggurr culture.
Buy your Uunguu Visitor Pass before entering so we know who is visiting.
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I love hearing these beautiful people talk, I wish we learned more about this growing up
I'm very proud of my son Terence. He is now Manager of the Uunguu Rangers Camp at Munuru. He looks after the tourists taking them safely to see our beautiful country
Do you fellas know the story of the Sunburst wandjina paintings not far from the river?
Awesome guys, keep the stories coming, love them
Wonderful place. Look forward to returning soon😄😄
Awesome 👏great to see you Ebony ❤️👍😎
Solid ebony.
Awesome you mob, sharing stories and language. Keep up g8 work.
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Today, 7th September is Threatened Species Day.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Traditional Owners for the work they do on Wunambal Gaambera Country monitoring threatened species and keeping Country healthy.
Our healthy country operations, as set out in our Healthy Country Plan, have kept our country healthy with no plants, animals, fish or diigu (bird) species or their habitats, that are here today, being lost.
There are over 1,600 plant species on Wunambal Gaambera Country and over 100 of these are not found anywhere else in Australia. Many species living on our country are threatened. One example, as pictured below, held by Terrick Bin Sali, is the Northern Quoll, Little Spotted Cat, Dasyurus hallucatus or wijingarri (in Wunambal language) or bangajii (in Gaambera language).
This spotted cat is generally called native cat or bush cat in English. It is an excellent hunter for small animals, they can be very aggressive and have a nasty bite.
They are found in the rocky areas of Ngauwudu (Mitchell Plateau).
Northern Quolls are threatened by cane toads, which first arrived on Wunambal Gaambera Country a few years ago. We are monitoring quolls numbers with camera traps to see how their populations are coping.
Have you seen a Northern Quoll? Share your photos.
Photos below show Uunguu Rangers and Healthy Country team setting up camera traps at Ngauwudu.
Photo by Mark Jones, for our partner Bush Heritage Australia
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