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{"title":"Yarning up with Gerry Turpin – An Interview about Indigenous biocultural knowledges","authors":"Gerry Turpin,&nbsp;Liz Cameron","doi":"10.1111/emr.12531","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12531","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aboriginal conversations usually take place around a fire, so that we can sit and immerse ourselves not only through talk but connect with Country. The act of yarning serves as a medium to establish and build respectful relationships, exchange stories and traditions and to preserve and pass on cultural knowledge. This interview with Ethnobotanist Gerry Turpin (Fig. 1) began like all other initial yarning conversations on who we are and where we belong.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"17-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12531","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77660562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Djaara cultural authority drives inclusion of their knowledge and culture in a Joint Management Plan for parks","authors":"Rodney Carter,&nbsp;Graham Atkinson,&nbsp;Marlene Burchill,&nbsp;Rebecca Phillips,&nbsp;Doug Humann,&nbsp;Jan Mahoney,&nbsp;Trevor Miles,&nbsp;Michele Braid,&nbsp;Rachel Buissereth,&nbsp;Stuart Cowell,&nbsp;Rosemary Hill,&nbsp;Barbara Huggins,&nbsp;Steve Jackson,&nbsp;Nat Raisbeck-Brown,&nbsp;Leah Talbot,&nbsp;Nathan Wong","doi":"10.1111/emr.12526","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12526","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Six parks in central Victoria were handed back to ownership of <i>Dja Dja Wurrung</i> People (<i>Djaara</i>) as part of the <i>Recognition and Settlement Agreement 2013</i> with the State of Victoria. Dhelkunya Dja Land Management Board (DDLMB) developed a Joint Management Plan (JMP) for these parks, which was approved under Victorian legislation and launched in October 2018. Here, we show how and why Djaara used their cultural authority to ensure their knowledge, and culture was incorporated into the JMP. <i>Djaara’s</i> cultural authority produced significant innovations. First, the unique Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes implemented by the <i>Dja Dja Wurrung</i> Clans Aboriginal Corporation (DDWCAC) for the DDLMB ensured that shared governance and decision-making underpinned joint management. Second, the participatory Healthy Country Planning approach enabled greater equity, including a unique 3-day ‘Map-a-Thon’ that integrated cultural and natural spatial data. Third, the challenge of achieving power-shifting from the government to the <i>Djaara</i> was addressed through a relationship-based approach, supported by systematic, evidence-based planning. The DDLMB and DDWCAC ensured development of the final JMP was innovative, equitable, culturally appropriate and culturally informed. Future processes would be improved by legislative change to mandate FPIC, with substantially greater resources to support the FPIC processes, and the inclusion of a ‘planning to plan’ stage to allow all participants to gain the capacities needed. Supporting the cultural authority of Traditional Owners provides a new direction that has much to offer planning for other joint-managed parks in Victoria and elsewhere.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"117-128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89927271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pirra Jungku: Comparison of traditional and contemporary fire practices on Karajarri Country, Western Australia","authors":"Edward M. J. Blackwood,&nbsp;Karajarri Rangers,&nbsp;Sam Bayley,&nbsp;Hamsini Bijlani,&nbsp;Rod J Fensham,&nbsp;Malcolm Lindsay,&nbsp;Ewan Noakes,&nbsp;Jackie Wemyss,&nbsp;Sarah Legge","doi":"10.1111/emr.12527","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traditional fire practices in Australia’s deserts may have created mosaics of post-fire seral stages that benefitted some plants and animals. Managing fire to emulate the patterns produced by traditional burning practices is a common objective in contemporary conservation planning in Australia’s deserts. However, the extent to which traditional burning in deserts affected fire regimes across space and time is contested. We aim to contribute to knowledge about the impacts of traditional burning on fire patterns in the Great Sandy Desert, northwest Australia. Our study covered the traditional lands of the Karajarri people, where some families were living a traditional lifestyle on Country until the 1960s. We analysed high-quality aerial photographs taken over 18,000 km² of Karajarri Country in the 1940s. Fire footprints up to several years old were mapped from these images, and their spatial characteristics were compared to those of contemporary fire regimes over the same area, visualised using high-resolution Sentinel satellite imagery. Fires in the 1940s (considered traditional) were more numerous but much smaller than contemporary (2016–2020) fires. The areal extent of recently burnt areas was smaller and the fire frequency was lower in the 1940s. Contemporary fire patterns around cultural sites differed little from fire patterns elsewhere in the landscape, possibly because people were burning over large areas rather than only at localised sites. Our study suggests that Karajarri influenced fire patterns at a landscape scale in the Great Sandy Desert, at least during periods of average rainfall. The findings are helping Karajarri refine fire management goals, for example, by informing the size and dispersion of future burns, and supporting community discussion about fire and culture. Fire management outcomes for plants and animals are being tracked with a biodiversity monitoring program.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"83-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12527","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78642403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A call to recognise and grow the Indigenous-led stewardship of Country","authors":"Cissy Gore-Birch,&nbsp;Oliver Costello,&nbsp;Teagan Goolmeer,&nbsp;Bradley Moggridge,&nbsp;Stephen van Leeuwen","doi":"10.1111/emr.12513","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12513","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12513","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78967740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding Indigenous values and priorities for wetlands to guide weed management actions: Lessons from the Nardab floodplain in northern Australia’s Kakadu National Park","authors":"Na-gangila Bangalang,&nbsp;Jonathan Nadji,&nbsp;Anita Nayinggul,&nbsp;Sean Nadji,&nbsp;Alfred Nayinggul,&nbsp;Simon Dempsey,&nbsp;Kenneth Mangiru,&nbsp;James Dempsey,&nbsp;Serena McCartney,&nbsp;Jennifer Mairi Macdonald,&nbsp;Cathy J. Robinson","doi":"10.1111/emr.12542","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12542","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many wetlands around the world are vulnerable to invasive species and are also culturally important for Indigenous peoples. Yet, translating the complex values Indigenous peoples hold for wetlands into management actions to mitigate the impacts of invasive species can be difficult to put into practice. In this paper, we draw on an Indigenous-led project on the Nardab wetland in Kakadu National Park to show how understanding the local nuance of Indigenous values and priorities in different wetland places can guide more effective and inclusive weed management activities. At Nardab, Indigenous values and priorities guided the choice of three priority sites to manage the impacts of Para grass (<i>Urochloa mutica</i>) weed. Specific values and priorities were identified across the sites, including significant bush tucker populations, and harvesting sites, the ability for the site to support Indigenous knowledge sharing and ceremonial activities and the opportunity for visitors to enjoy a healthy wetland in this World Heritage Area. The values and priorities varied across the sites, so the actions needed to improve the health of these places were also place specific. The results showed that relationships between Indigenous people and places varied from site to site within a given wetland and could not be easily generalized when deciding on effective management activities. The paper highlights the benefits of supporting ecological, cultural and human-focused actions that Indigenous people wish to prioritize at selected sites to ensure the management of weed impacts on wetlands adequately reflect the diverse cultural landscapes that are embedded within Indigenous peoples’ Country.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"105-116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12542","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73731635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Yarning up with Oliver Costello – An interview about Indigenous biocultural knowledges","authors":"Oliver Costello,&nbsp;Liz Cameron","doi":"10.1111/emr.12530","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12530","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This interview began like other initial yarning conversations on who we are and where we belong. Yarning serves as a medium to establish and build respectful relationships, exchange stories and traditions, and preserve and pass on cultural knowledge. The following discussion is with Oliver Costello, a Bundjalung man, from the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Oliver was instrumental in creating the Firesticks Initiative, Firesticks Alliance and Jagun Alliance.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"22-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12530","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79697197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Getting our Act together to improve Indigenous leadership and recognition in biodiversity management","authors":"Teagan Goolmeer,&nbsp;Anja Skroblin,&nbsp;Brendan A. Wintle","doi":"10.1111/emr.12523","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12523","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Increasingly scientists and policy makers are acknowledging the importance of Indigenous participation in effective biodiversity conservation. In Australia, the recognised Indigenous estate is vast, accounting for up to 57% of the continent and comprising some of the highest priority conservation lands, including 46% of the formal National Reserve System. The <i>Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act</i> <i>1999</i> (the Act) is Commonwealth legislation designed to protect and manage nationally and internationally important species and ecological communities, which entails specific objectives to recognise Indigenous people. However, to date the involvement of Indigenous people in implementation of the Act has been inconsistent and inadequate, particularly in the protection of the Indigenous estate, understanding and supporting Indigenous people’s aspirations for Country and culturally significant species, and respecting the traditional management of species and landscapes. In this article, we will explore the key barriers and opportunities for improving Indigenous participation in biodiversity conservation under the Act. We structure our exploration using the three connected themes: (1) meaningful Indigenous engagement and participation, (2) recognition of the Indigenous Estate and (3) strengthening Indigenous-led governance. We find that there is a pressing need and an immediate opportunity to reform and strengthen the Act to protect Indigenous Knowledge, to recognise and report on the role of Indigenous Estate, and to realise the aspirations of Indigenous peoples for improved land and sea management that strengthens people, culture and Country.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"33-42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12523","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81475512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenous ecological knowledge systems – Exploring sensory narratives","authors":"Liz Cameron","doi":"10.1111/emr.12534","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12534","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is little attention focused on how Indigenous Australian people engage with the environment and how other ecologists can include this interdisciplinary approach into their practice. Despite many ecologists' genuine desire to work across cultural fields together, there are some notable differences between Western and Indigenous ideologies. One of these principles involves an embodied process that allows us as Indigenous people to connect, analyse, predict and measure changes in Country. This cultural tool of knowing is bounded in place-based narratives that are sensory-driven to filter and guide our field experiences. This article serves as an essential resource for scientists and conservationists to rethink their connections to place through immersive bodily experiences as a meaningful apparatus to increase public environmental stewardship. After all, is it not our desire to inspire ecological thinking within a public domain?</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12534","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85826110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating scientific and Aboriginal knowledge, practice and priorities to conserve an endangered rainforest ecosystem in the Kimberley region, northern Australia","authors":"Malcolm Lindsay,&nbsp;Louise Beames,&nbsp;Yawuru Country Managers,&nbsp;Nyul Nyul Rangers,&nbsp;Bardi Jawi Rangers","doi":"10.1111/emr.12535","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12535","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australia’s diverse plants and animals evolved for tens of thousands of years with Aboriginal biocultural knowledge, land management and cultural practice. The interdependency of this biocultural knowledge and land management practice is still ecologically relevant today but is only recently being acknowledged in mainstream scientific conservation management processes and research. We present an example of cross-cultural collaborative management of the endangered monsoon vine thickets of the Dampier Peninsula, West Kimberley, northern Australia. These vine thickets occur as a network of over 80 patches in the lee of coastal dunes on the Peninsula, and are ecologically rich (containing 25% of Peninsula plant species) and culturally important for Peninsula Aboriginal groups for food, medicine, camping, cultural ceremonies and law. Adversely affected by land-clearing, weeds and wildfires, the vine thickets were listed as nationally endangered in 2013. The overlapping significance of the vine thickets by scientific and Aboriginal knowledge systems resulted in the formation of the Monsoon Vine Thicket Project in 2008 that aimed to document and conserve the ecosystem and its associated culture. The project has grown successfully over 13 years and has been guided by cross-cultural collaboration principles of respect for: cultural knowledge, practices and priorities; cultural knowledge holders; and long-term partnerships. The project has resulted in considerable outcomes in weed and fire management; seed collection, propagation and revegetation; community education; and the documentation, transfer and practice of Aboriginal biocultural knowledge. The greatest challenge for the project has been to better prioritise cultural activities, with examples provided of how this can increase benefits to both ecological conservation and cultural maintenance. The project’s strength was its cross-cultural approach and resultant respectful and trusting relationships that allowed for project flexibility and adaptation and for the collaborative partners to learn and develop capacity. The integration of cultural and scientific knowledge and practice resulted in greater conservation outcomes for monsoon vine thickets of the Dampier Peninsula, and we believe is an important cross-cultural model for ecosystem management elsewhere in Australia.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"93-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12535","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77774608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Dreaming and Indigenous ancestral stories are central to nature conservation: Perspectives from Walalkara Indigenous Protected Area, Australia","authors":"Langaliki Robin,&nbsp;Kuntjupai Robin,&nbsp;Ettore Camerlenghi,&nbsp;Luke Ireland,&nbsp;Ellen Ryan-Colton","doi":"10.1111/emr.12528","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12528","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nature conservation in both theory and practice is increasingly looking to understand different knowledge systems, including Indigenous worldviews, to achieve complementary conservation and socio-cultural goals. Here, we share stories from one of the longest running Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs), Walalkara IPA, by Langaliki Robin, daughter of the founders of the IPA, who reflected on her parents’ lessons about how <i>Tjukurpa</i> (Dreaming Law) is essential for conservation. Grounded theory analysis of her interview identified the importance of <i>Tjukurpa</i> and the role of Langaliki’s parents, particularly her father Tjilpi Robin Kankapankatja in the establishment of the IPA. <i>Tjukurpa</i> was asserted as a core cultural knowledge system that provides Indigenous people with motivation, strength and well-being, allowing them to maintain access to Country and work cross-culturally. <i>Tjukurpa</i> influenced the initial declaration, roads and physical layout of the protected area and continues to guide the daily work activities of IPA rangers. According to Langaliki, the key to maintaining strong people and Country is to pass on cultural knowledge and <i>Tjukurpa</i> from generation to generation, especially to younger people. This research suggested that by knowing who the key knowledge holders are, respecting that <i>Tjukurpa</i> exists without being privy to the details, and continuing multi-generational access to Country, conservation programmes that embrace Indigenous ways of knowing and doing can achieve successful outcomes for nature conservation and Indigenous well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"43-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12528","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74866366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}