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
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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'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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Lili Prins stewie 🥰
We have partnered with Telstra, with our Right Way fire program, to help reduce their carbon emissions. Here is a video they made which uses footage taken from our recent cultural fire walk up the King Edward River. ... See MoreSee Less
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Our Healthy Country team, with Traditional Owner, Helen Waina setting up and retrieving data from camera traps on Gaambera Country as part of our annual monitoring work. The trip was supported by WWF who have partnered with WGAC on our threatened species work.
There are more than 600 islands in Wunambal Gaambera Country and only the largest ones have been surveyed for threatened species. Islands can provide a refuge or safe haven for animals from threats on the mainland like feral cats.
On this trip, in August, we retrieved camera traps from 6 islands in the Osborn Island and Eclipse Island groups. Preliminary results are promising with a bandicoot species identified on one of the islands. On Wunambal Gaambera Country we get brown bandicoots, garimbu and golden bandicoots or little bandicoots, bundilarri. Borda Island has a known population of the threatened nabarlek, rock wallaby. Echidnas were also common on several islands.
We are also doing long term camera trap monitoring on the mainland to look after species there, including northern quolls (wijingarri - Wunambal, bangajii, Gaambera) that have declined since the arrival of cane toads.
Watch this short video to find out about our monitoring work.
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Way to go Helen ❤️👍😎
Uunguu Rangers and Wunambal Gaambera Traditional Owners preparing for junba a few weeks ago at Munurru ... See MoreSee Less
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Marshall Black
This happened the other night at Munurru (King Edward River Campground)!!!
Junba dance and song has been performed for thousands of years for celebration and coming together.
In this video Wunambal Gaambera people performed a junba in front of tourists visiting and staying at Munurru.
Find out more about our Wanjina Wunggurr culture; or you can visit our country in the far north Kimberley, Western Australia.
See our visitor locations on our website, which include the iconic Punamii-Uunpuu (Mitchell Falls). And be sure to purchase your Uunguu Visitor Pass so we know you are safely travelling through our Country.
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We need the video of the ladies dance …. VERY different story telling from the Pilbara and or Southern Areas Of WA
Wow that's awesome, so wish we saw this during our stay at Munurru back in June. Hopefully next time 🙂
Shannon Atherton
Brilliant !
Little Mertens campground and Port Warrender Rd are closed due to a fire on the Mitchell Falls road. Munurru campground is still open.
Photo of Munurru
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