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National Environment Week drives local action across Samoa
Samoa has launched new biodiversity, invasive species and environmental communic...
Rebekah Rasmussen 26 May 2026
Community calls for Barrambin protection before Olympic works
Indigenous Elders and community supporters gathered at Barrambin, Victoria Park...
Joseph Guenzler 26 May 2026
Indigenous rangers discover Boorloo / Perth Hills population of rare native fish thought to be extinct
Key points:- A native fish species, the Balston's pygmy perch was thought to be...
Giovanni Torre 25 May 2026
Cultural burn helps restore koala habitat on Gumbaynggirr Country
Cultural burning is helping restore koala habitat on Gumbaynggirr Country on the...
Joseph Guenzler 21 May 2026
Traditional Owners blame Rio Tinto groundwater pumping for drying sacred Pilbara waterhole

Yarrala, a waterhole in Western Australia's West Pilbara where Robe River Kuruma women once gave birth, has dried out and filled with red pindan earth, with Traditional Owners blaming Rio Tinto's grou...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark May 7, 2026
Partnership sees Yolŋu Rangers lead education rethink

In northeast Arnhem Land education is being reimagined. Not through policy reform or curriculum adjustment, but through a rethink of how learning is recognised, delivered and valued.

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown May 5, 2026
Partnership extension supports Aboriginal foundation’s expansion of cultural land management

The Aboriginal Carbon Foundation has renewed its partnership with general insurer IAG to continue strengthening community resilience as the risk of bushfire increases.

Callan Morse Callan Morse May 1, 2026
Cultural heritage key as vast Pilungah Reserve permanently protected from mining, logging and grazing

A significant stretch of Country in north-western Queensland - about twice the size of Magandjin / Brisbane - has been granted the highest level of legal protection for private land in Australia.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 28, 2026
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Gathering explores vital lessons from First Nations knowledge

With an uncertain climate future ahead, the resilience and millennia of knowledge of First Peoples is being prioritised and canvassed as potentially holding some answers as environmental disaster thre...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Apr 27, 2026
Indigenous-led cultural burning program expands across NSW and ACT

An Indigenous-led cultural burning research program will be expanded across parts of New South Wales and the ACT. First Nations communities, the Australian National University and the NSW Government's...

Jackson Clark Jackson Clark Apr 27, 2026
NSW Aboriginal Land Council lodges formal complaint with Human Rights Commission over government plans to change Land Rights system

The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council has formally lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission regarding the government's proposed Crown Land Management Amendment (Statutory R...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 22, 2026
Fiji pushes geospatial investment at Pacific regional forum

Fiji has used a regional meeting in Nadi to push geospatial, surveying and hydrographic systems as core infrastructure for climate resilience, land management and maritime protection across the Pacifi...

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Rebekah Rasmussen Apr 22, 2026
Aboriginal Land Management training helping next generation work on Country

When Worimi Elder Michelle Perry took part in specialised Indigenous land management training, the influence it had on younger generations inspired her to go out on her own to take it further.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Apr 15, 2026
Drastic caribou decline sparks urgent talks between Indigenous leaders and Quebec officials

Indigenous leaders in Quebec are weighing measures to address the decline in Caribou numbers. The Leaf River caribou population in the north of the Canadian province have been in drastic decline in re...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 3, 2026
'Fundamental to our history, culture, and future' - Indian Peaks Band files to protect Tribal water rights in Utah

The Indian Peaks Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, represented by the Native American Rights Fund, filed a Notice of Appeal and Petition for Stay with the US Department of the Interior on Wedne...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 3, 2026
Fructus Nullius: The freehold proxy and the invisible economy of Country

Seventy-three to one. Last month's Federal Court judgment on the McArthur River mine awarded the Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra peoples $54 million for cultural loss and $743,408 for economic loss...

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Kado Muir Mar 30, 2026
Groundbreaking partnership to protect Deen Maar / Lady Julia Percy Island

A new research partnership will protect Deen Maar (AKA Lady Julia Percy Island), a sacred island and important wildlife site off the coast of Port Fairy.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Mar 24, 2026
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