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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Monitoring on Wunambal Gaambera Country.
The last few weeks Uunguu Rangers - Tabitha Evans, Damon Bundamarra and Desmond Williams have been doing camera trap monitoring.
Recently we were joined by Nick and Pius from WWF and Jamal Goonack, Wunambal Gaambera Traditional Owner.
Our monitoring program, part of our Healthy Country Plan, incorporates both traditional knowledge and western science. For example, we have cultural indicators of the health of important animals, such as animals being fat in their right season. We also use western science measures of species abundance, like using boat-based counts for marine turtles.
You can find out more about our healthy country work on our website: www.wunambalgaambera.org.au
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Design a Wundaagu Saltwater logo competition..
All Wunambal Gaambera artists are invited to submit a logo design for a Wundaagu project, Kimberley Reef Connect, to help protect our sea country.
Design the logo to go on tshirts, as pictured. Winner receives $600 voucher.
Photo is a mock up of the tshirt, you can see where the logo will go top left side, where it says TBA.
See Lillian in the Kalumburu office to submit your artwork. Last submissions due next Friday 29th September.
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Paula MacDonald
!!!!!WE ARE HIRING!!!!
Uunguu Ranger Coordinator
We have an exciting opportunity to work in a beautiful and spectacular part of the remote North Kimberley. Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC) is seeking an experienced and motivated person to join the Wunambal Gaambera Healthy Country Team as Uunguu Ranger Coordinator.
The Uunguu Ranger Coordinator works closely with senior Uunguu Rangers to lead the ranger team in delivering cultural, land and sea management activities on Wunambal Gaambera Country, the Uunguu Indigenous Protected Area.
Apply now. Download full job description: www.WunambalGaambera.org.au/about/careers
Kimberley Land Council Environs Kimberley Bush Heritage Australia Australia's North West Aboriginal Tours & Experiences WWF-Australia Rangelands NRM Waringarri Aboriginal Arts Kalumburu Remote Community School Indigenous Business Australia Kimberley Land Council Kimberley Development Commission Broome Circle Kununurra Visitor Centre
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Beautiful 🥰 photos of the Rangers
Lili😊
Looks like beautiful country.
Jayden Lake
Wow! What an amazing job...
Goldie John Dale
Waj
Identified position.
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They're not racist but you would have to be an aboriginal to get this job
Can Europeans apply?
Would be a awsome position being a ranger
Give job my mob is wappurburra
Helicopters lol. VOTE NO VOICE.
Is it for aboriginal people only
Is this job open to all race of people or aboriginal only I am a white man with great experience in this field
Margaret Lippitt Christina Maria Cigobia ???
Calling all Wunambal Gaambera artists…. We are on the hunt for a new logo for a project we are doing in collaboration with Curtin Uni, WA Museum and Marine Parks Australia to better protect and look after our Wundaagu. It’s called the Kimberley Reef Connect project. You can read about it here on our website or link in our Instagram bio.
The logo used will be put in a tshirt for all our mob. $600 voucher for the chosen logo.
Example designs of logos can be found on the flyer. Think of all our Wundaagu or Saltwater targets - our cultural places, our rock art, our gawi - fish and other seafood and mangguru (marine turtles) and balguja (dugong).
See Lillian Karadada in the Kalumburu office or email media@wunambalgaambera.org.au for more information.
#curtinmedia @curtin.enviro.ag @curtinuniversity @wamuseum @zoer.coral @ausmarineparks @curtin_news
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Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation is part of this new project which is a collaboration with Curtin University Western Australia Museum Australian Marine Parks to help us increase our understanding and better manage our Uunguu Wundaagu (saltwater) Indigenous Protected Area within the Kimberley Marine Park.
The project will enable our people to travel out to remote islands where our old people travelled in rafts and canoes. We will share the cultural values of our Wundaagu with the scientists.
“Looking after and connecting with our Wundaagu is important for our people.”
Catherine Goonack, WGAC Chair.
Read more here; wunambalgaambera.org.au/kimberley-reef-connect-project-to-make-a-splash/
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Gangala or Orange-footed scrub-fowl captured on camera, Wunambal Gaambera Country.
As part of our healthy country work our Uunguu Rangers monitor our Uunguu (our living home).
This photograph of the gangala was taken during a recent field trip using camera traps.
These birds are one of 3 species of megapodes found in Australia. Megapodes are birds that incubate their eggs in mounds of dirt and leaves - along with the malleefowl and the brush-turkey. The second photo shows the gangala’s nest or mound where they bury their eggs.
There are over 6000 patches of wulo (rainforest) in Wunambal Gaambera Country - including islands and the mainland and gangala live in many of the larger patches.
You can find out more information on a lot of our plants and animals in our new online dictionary. Download it to your phone via our website or App Store.
@wilinggin_aboriginal_corp @bushheritageaus @kimberleylandcouncil @waitoc @kimberleyspirit @ausmarineparks @universitywa @rachbeadle @craig.pico.allen
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We launched our Wunambal Gaambera dictionary as a phone app in August with a junba song and dance at Munurru, King Edward River Campground.
Click on the below link to listen to an interview with Angelina Boona, Lillian Karadada, Jason Lee speak and Vanessa Mills from ABC Kimberley
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/kimberley-breakfast/language-dictionary/102820302
You can download the app to your phone from the app store or via our website for smart phones.
Language app a hit with young generation - ABC listen
www.abc.net.au
A dictionary download might not be on every teenager's or grandmother's wish list at the app store, but it's a real hit in the remote community of Kalumburu.1 CommentComment on Facebook
Legends in paradise x
More of our Wanjina Wunggurr archival materials have been returned to Wunambal Gaambera Traditional Owners from Germany.
For the last three years, a team from the Frobenius Institute in Germany and the University of Western Australia has been working on making ethnographic materials accessible to Wanjina Wunggurr Traditional Owners that have been kept in Germany for more than 80 years.
This visit by the research team, gave us another opportunity to view drawings, photos, and images of bushcraft.
For some of us, like Rosalin and Angelina Karadada (pictured) we are able to reconnect with our ancestors, “This is my grandfather, who we have never seen before in our lives.” They said of a drawing they found of Jack Karadada.
The work on the archival materials will continue and all records have been made available to Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation for further use and study.
Image 1: Roslin and Angelina Karadada with images of their father and grandfather from the German archive (Photo: Christina Henneke).
Image 2: Jason Lee, Richard Kuba, Kim Doohan, and Christina Henneke unpacking and examining images and archival materials together with Liza Bundamarra (Photo: Martin Porr)
Image 3: Copies of artworks on display in Kalumburu (Photo: Martin Porr)
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Awesome 👏
So wonderful ! 🥹
WE ARE SICK on hearing about FIRST BLOODY NATION - Take a holiday at Tax Payer Expense as NORMAL or Get areal Job that will help the us ALL
Terrific work Martin!
Fantastic
It is wonderful that these items have been returned. I wonder though, whether in the future, it would be a good idea for these to be on display elsewhere so lots of people from other countries could see them too?
Beautiful
So much respect for our First Nations people 👏
Great to see more history being returned to its people ❤️
That is wonderful, they are amazing pictures home again where they belong.
Beautiful pictures thank you for sharing
Sharniqua Hutt
Wonderful lovely
Let the world see how great they are
How wonderful! Are there any photos of Peter Manila Jack and Louis’ brother?
I wonder if this fits into the time frame quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/09/the-incidence-of-cannibalism-in-aboriginal-society/
Rubbish
That's nice art not dots
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