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2018 Wunambal Gaambera Newsletter
Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation held their Annual General Meeting on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th December 2018. Attendees at the meeting were given a copy of the 2018 Newsletter. Download
Rangers discover rare wallaby
Traditional Owners conducting scientific monitoring in the far north Kimberley have found exciting evidence of a tiny rock-wallaby long thought to have disappeared from the region’s mainland. Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal
Uunguu Camp inspires Kalumburu kids
The incentive of getting back to Country has again improved education outcomes and attendance at Kalumburu Remote Community School this year. Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation’s Uunguu Rangers hosted 13 students
Collaborative Research on the Ecology and Management of the ‘Wulo’ Monsoon Rainforest in Wunambal Gaambera Country, North Kimberley, Australia
Tom Vigilante, Stefania Ondei, Catherine Goonack, David M. J. S. BowmanOctober 2017 — Land 6(4):68Access the paper — DOI: 10.3390/land6040068 Indigenous groups are increasingly combining traditional ecological knowledge and Western scientific
Visitor pass secures North Kimberley country, culture, jobs
Launching the 2017 Uunguu Visitor Pass – an online permit system for visiting Wunambal Gaambera Country – Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation chairperson Catherine Goonack said Traditional Owners now had a
Uunguu Rangers, scientists find thriving coral hotspots
The North Kimberley’s Uunguu Rangers are combining science and traditional knowledge to monitor and look after their saltwater country, with a recent survey recording coral hotspots rivalling Ningaloo Reef and
Fire and cattle disturbance affects vegetation structure and rain forest expansion into savanna in the Australian monsoon tropics
June 2017 — Article in Journal of Biogeography 44(10)DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13039 Stefania Ondei, Lynda D. Prior, Tom Vigilante, David M.J.S. Bowman Aims To detect changes in area and vegetation dynamics of monsoon
The Uunguu Monitoring and Evaluation Committee: Intercultural Governance of a Land and Sea Management Programme in the Kimberley, Australia
May 2017 — Ecological Management & Restoration 18(2):124-133DOI: 10.1111/emr.12257 Beau Austin, Tom Vigilante, Stuart Cowell, Zerika Clement The importance of Indigenous peoples’ and their ancestral estates for the maintenance and protection