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Indigenous Land Management
TERN panel sessionMr Dean Yibarbuk
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Summary
• A bit about me• My responses– What Indigenous people
contribute– Can we make things
work better?– Is TERN able to help?– Can we work together?
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About me• Traditional Owner of Djinkarr, near Maningrida
Northern Territory (NT)• Senior Ranger - Bininj Fire Ecologist• Founder of the Djelk Rangers• A founding member of the Aboriginal Research
Practitioners’ Network (ARPnet) hosted by Charles Darwin University (CDU)
• Wardekken Land Management Limited Board of Directors
• Indigenous Protected Area Committee Member
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What Indigenous people contribute
• Our skills and knowledge – living on country all the time
• People – working together on country with other neighbouring groups
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Can we make things work better?
• Other collaborative work – more opportunities• Host organisations are sometimes under resourced
which are supporting Indigenous land management activities
• Indigenous engagement needs to be supported fully through various departments
• Realise not all Indigenous people get benefit from major funding (unequal distribution of funded Indigenous land management activities across the top end, NT)
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Is TERN able to help?
• Build trust• Strengthen capacity on the ground• Resources on the ground to store information
locally• Operate under cultural and natural and
spiritual requirements
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Can we work together
• Mentorship– Trust is key– Regular interactions
• Capacity building at various levels– Balanda working right way with Bininj
• Setting up opportunities for our younger people• Recognition and acknowledgment– Doing things Bininj way
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Thanks• TERN• CDU & ARPnet• Dr Bev Sithole
Photo credits• CDU & ARPnet• North Australia Indigenous Land & Sea Management
Alliance
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