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Introducing the work of our newest partner organisation, the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language and Culture Centre

Hear from Sheila White about the role of women in caring for Country and her uplifting experiences with Strong Women for Healthy Country Network as a Message Stick Member.

Mimal is supporting knowledge-holders to remember, reimagine and recreate sacred songlines and dances at important cultural sites across their management area

During September 2023, over 200 women involved in caring for Country across the Northern Territory came together as one united voice for the fourth Strong Women for Healthy Country forum.

ASRAC wants to connect rangers and Traditional Owners to the most remote areas of their Country, in order to better manage this valuable part of Australia’s National Reserve.

Following decades of inconsistent, insufficient and often times totally absent public education, Traditional Owners of the Djelk Indigenous Protected Area have expressed an ambition for independent, bi-cultural homeland schools—similar to those in the Warddeken IPA.

Each project we support shows how, when First Nations peoples have representation and engagement in the matters affecting them, the outcomes are better.

As a team and Board - Bininj (Aboriginal) and balanda (non-Indigenous) - we deeply considered what an Indigenous Voice to Parliament might mean for Indigenous rangers, KKT and remote communities.

Accessing education can be incredibly difficult for the children of Indigenous rangers working and living in Arnhem Land’s remote communities.

Learn more about the efforts of the Warddeken Rangers to bring mayh (animals) back to the stone country.

Anbinik are large, broad-canopied trees that support a specific range of plant and animal species that have evolved together. It is a relictual species that is now the only living species in its genus.

In May 2023, The Conversation published an article detailing how northern Australia developed one of the world’s best bushfire management programs.

An update from the activities of students and teachers during Term 1 at all three Nawarddeken Academy schools.

Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife (FNPW) has teamed up with KKT to support Indigenous rangers in their efforts to protect and restore native species across the important Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) of Warddeken.

There are estimated to be more than 30,000 rock art sites across the Warddeken IPA, painted in a style unique to the region and using materials sourced from the land. Today, the Nawarddeken people remain the original archaeologists of this art and the archivists of the living knowledge connected to it.

Patagonia is one Karrkad Kanjdji Trust’s generous supporters, and worked alongside KKT and Mimal Land Management to share a snapshot of life on Country here for women rangers and future custodians.

After a long process of consultations and approvals, the Northwest Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (NALFA) project has been approved as an eligible carbon offset project area. The expands the total area of carbon farming in Arnhem Land and ensures more rangers can earn an income from managing Country with fire.

The Strong Women for Healthy Country Network brings together women working in Indigenous land management from all across the Northern Territory to advocate, communicate and collaborate as a network of strong women with a united voice.

Momentous celebrations for
the Nawarddeken Academy

The Nawarddeken Academy and three outstation communities celebrated their achievement of full time independent education for their children

The Kuwarddewardde Malkno is a foundational teaching resource for the Nawarddeken Academy, through which the Australian and Indigenous Language and Culture curriculums are contextualised to the seasons and culture of the Nawarddeken people.

KKT Co-Chair, Dean Yibarbuk, was part of a delegation who travelled to Canada and shared land management expertise with the Canadian government and First Nations peoples.