Territory Stories

Ngangkan Culture Camp and Biodiversity Survey

Details:

Title

Ngangkan Culture Camp and Biodiversity Survey

Creator

Warddeken Rangers

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT

Date

2013-06

Location

Warddeken Indigenous Protected area.

Description

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; Discusses the purpose of the survey as being an opportunity for the local Warddeken traditional owners and their families as well as rangers and scientists from the Northern Territory Government to work together and learn about the biodiversity of animals found in the area as well as learning about their own local culture; describes the type of animals that were caught in the traps that included feral cats which would be eradicated; also discusses the location of the survey as being at Ngangkan in Ngolkwarre country located at Warddeken on the western Arnhem Plateau of the Northern Territory.

Notes

This project was supported by funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Research Programs. Warddeken Land Management logo on front cover - Northern Territory Government logo on back cover.

Table of contents

Where and why? -- Who was there? -- What we did - Cultural activities - Animal survey - How we put our traps out - Spotlighting -- What did we find? -- What did we find spotlighting? -- Species list --Our thoughts and what next

Language

English

Subject

Feral animals; Cat control; Environmental management; Culture; Bush tucker; Aboriginal Australians

Publisher name

National Environmental Research Program Northern Australia Hub

Place of publication

Casuarina

Format

18 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 15 cm x 30 cm.

File type

application/pdf.

Copyright owner

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/291960

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/400906