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Science and Culture Join Forces in Fight for Dugong Survival
North Kimberley Traditional Owner Rangers are now professionally trained to help monitor one of their most vulnerable and culturally important species – the dugong – following an intensive course hosted
Refuge discovered in remote WA rainforest
Camera traps stationed for six months in WA’s largest continuous rainforest have yielded images that have stunned both scientists and traditional landowners. Healthy populations of Northern quoll – elsewhere subject
Post-fire resprouting strategies of rainforest and savanna saplings along the rainforest–savanna boundary in the Australian monsoon tropics
Plant Ecology 217(6) · Oct 2015Stefania Ondei, Lynda D. Prior, Tom Vigilante, David M. J. S. Bowman Access the paper – DOI: 10.1007/s11258-015-0531-3 In tropical areas where climatic conditions support both
Mangguru (marine turtles) and Balguja (dugong)
Monitoring Project: Field Trip Report, Wunambal Gaambera country, WA, 21-28 August 2013. Technical Report · Jan 2015Micha Jackson, Peter Bayliss, Waina N, Rod Kennett Access the paper >> The Wunambal
Marine Turtle Monitoring Project: A Collaborative Research Approach in the North Kimberley
Conferance paper · Aug 2014Micha Jackson, Peter Bayliss, Rod Kennett, Tom Vigilante Access the paper >> Although boat-based surveys are not currently used to monitor the distribution and abundance of
Island country: aboriginal connections, values and knowledge of the Western Australian Kimberley islands in the context of an Island Biological Survey
Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81(1):145, January 2013Tom Vigilante, J. Toohey, A. Gorring, Kim Doohan Access the paper – DOI: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.81.2013.145-182 ABSTRACT – Our paper describes Aboriginal connections, values and
Mangguru (marine turtles) and Balguja (dugong) Monitoring Project: Looking after Turtles and Dugongs on Wunambal Gaambera Country, North Kimberley
Micha Jackson, Peter Bayliss, Rod Kennett, Tom Vigilante August 2012 — Proceedings of the First Western Australian Marine Turtle Symposium, 28-29th Indigenous communities have increasingly been expressing their aspirations for
Insights into the biodiversity and social benchmarking components of the Northern Australian fire management and carbon abatement programmes
James A. Fitzsimons, Jeremy Russell‐Smith, Glenn James, Michael LookerJanuary 2012 — Ecological Management & Restoration 13(1):51 – 57 Summary Much of northern Australia’s tropical savannas are subject to annual intense