Indigenous Ecological Knowledge – Atlas of Living Australia

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Indigenous language names in the ALA

29th October 2019

At the PULiiMA 2019 Indigenous Languages & Technology Conference in Darwin in September, Senior Knowledge holders from the Kamilaroi community, Bernad…

Empowering future Indigenous land managers

Intergenerational traditional ecological knowledge transfer and Citizen Science

Indigenous knowledge helps fill ecological information gaps in remote Arnhem Land: but is it too late for small mammals?

18th March 2019

by Banul Munyarryun, Ben Kitchener, Gill Towler, Yirralka Rangers, Emilie Ens In June 2018, Yirralka Senior Ranger Banul Munyarryun, a respected …

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

26th November 2018

by Cathy Bow, PhD student and Project Manager, Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

Citizen science project builds on award winning cross-cultural collaboration in eastern Arnhem Land

7th November 2018

In April 2018, Rangers from eastern Arnhem Land Indigenous Protected Areas and Macquarie University ecologists extended their cross-cultural biodivers…

Because of Her, We Can! NAIDOC Week: Stories from the Atlas of Living Australia

Within our Indigenous Ecological Knowledge program of work, the Atlas of Living Australia works with many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women …

The Tracks App: a bi-lingual mobile app exploring biodiversity in an indigenous context

22nd March 2018

Rangers from the Central Land Council (CLC) now have the capacity to track threatened species in both English and Warlpiri as part of a comprehensive …

Sharing Indigenous women’s knowledge of biodiversity and culture across tribal boundaries in Arnhem Land

11th November 2016

This post has been written and produced by Emilie Ens from Macquarie University, Sydney. Over the last couple of years the ALA has been working with t…

Indigenous fire and season calendar

3rd November 2016

Banbai nation people at Wattleridge Indigenous Protected Area in northern New South Wales are working with Michelle McKemey at the University of New E…