Protecting native biodiversity
2025
Australian
Geographic
Awards
for
Nature
This pioneering program was awarded the $30,000 Silver Tier Award by the Australian Geographic Society for monitoring, protecting and revitalising at-risk native animals across the Kuwarddewardde (Stone Country) of West Arnhem Land.
The Mayh Recovery Program is a cornerstone of Warddeken, blending traditional ecological knowledge with Western science to support rangers to collect, care for and translate ecological data. This allows Traditional Owners to understand Country in new ways, empowering local land management decision-making to support important species and places.
Warddeken rangers, Alexandria Nabulwad and Sarahfina Watson, and Ecological Monitoring Manager, Cara Penton, attended the ceremony in Sydney on Gadigal land to accept the award on behalf of Warddeken. Critically, the funding associated with this award will support the Mayh Recovery Program’s operations over the next 12 months, strengthening actions such as planned early burning, feral species management and intergenerational knowledge sharing.
Thank you to the Australian Geographic Society for recognising the efforts and contributions of very remote communities, and to Elk for styling the Warddeken representatives. And congratulations to the Warddeken Mayh Recovery Program on this deserved celebration of their important and urgent work.
If you want to learn more about the Mayh Recovery Program or any of Warddeken’s other projects, you can read their latest annual report here.
All images by Giovanni Portelli Photography
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