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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
Aboriginal fire use in Australian tropical savannas: Ecological effects and management lessons
Tom Vigilante, Brett P. Murphy, David M. J. S. Bowman, Mark A. CochraneJanuary 2009 — Chapter from book Tropical Fire Ecology (pp.143-167) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77381-8_6In book: Tropical Fire Ecology (pp.143-167) Aboriginal people share
Contemporary landscape burning patterns in the far North Kimberley region of north-west Australia: Human influences and environmental determinants
Tom Vigilante, David M. J. S. Bowman, Rohan P Fisher, Cameron YatesJuly 2004 — Journal of Biogeography 31(8):1317 – 1333Access the paper — DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01104.x This study of contemporary landscape burning patterns
Effects of fire history on the structure and floristic composition of woody vegetation around Kalumburu, North Kimberley, Australia: A landscape-scale natural experiment
January 2004 — Australian Journal of Botany 52(3)DOI: 10.1071/BT03156Tom Vigilante, David M. J. S. Bowman Indigenous landscape burning is practiced around remote communities in the Kimberleys but has been replaced by