Project summaries - 2006 Protecting Our Places grants
| 2006 Protecting Our Places grants |
|---|
| Organisation | Project title | Amount $ |
|---|
Albury and District Aboriginal Lands Council | Canoe tree restoration and enhancement | 20,912 |
Blue Mountains Aboriginal Culture and Resource Centre | Blue Mountains Indigenous botanic gardens | 35,000 |
Bunjum Aboriginal Co-Operative Limited | Bunjum Coop and BSC Jali lands protection partnership project | 30,000 |
Burra Bee Dee Aboriginal Elders Group Incorporated | Burra Bee Dee - interpretative signage and walking tracks project | 33,748 |
"Edgerton" Kiwiembal Environment, Heritage and Cultural Aboriginal Corporation | Revegetation and habitation of river restoration project | 29,473 |
Merrimans Local Aboriginal Land Council | Midden and shoreline erosion control - Wapengo Lake | 35,000 |
Mirri Mirri Bunderra Aboriginal Corporation | Bong Bong track gathering round learning place | 14,494 |
Moree Local Aboriginal Land Council | To establish a native bush tucker garden on Aboriginal land | 34,000 |
Mrangalli Aboriginal Corporation | Tingha town common rehabilitation project | 23,661 |
Nanima Pre-School | Our Places | 14,090 |
Nari Nari Tribal Council | Glenhope revegetation project | 25,820 |
Narwan Village Community | Clean up of the environment and development of Narwan Village | 35,000 |
Purfleet-Taree Local Aboriginal Lands Council | Environmental monitoring, education and rehabilitation | 34,935 |
Purfleet-Taree Local Aboriginal Lands Council | Rehabilitation of Sunrise (Purfleet) Indigenous community | 34,970 |
Purrimaibahn Aboriginal Education and Training Unit - TAFE NSW - Hunter | Burri bush tucker garden | 23,590 |
Tibooburra Local Aboriginal Land Council | Increase awareness of Aboriginal heritage and culture | 20,000 |
| 16 projects | TOTAL | $444,693 |
This project aims to protect an ancient River Red Gum that is a significant canoe tree located on the bank of the Murray River in Corowa. The tree is in serious risk of falling into the river due to erosion processes undermining the bank. After work has been completed, we will put in an interpretation signage educating the local community about the project and the significant of the canoe tree.
The project aims to rehabilitate and restore the native vegetation on a tract of land in the Upper Blue Mountains. The project has been loosely promoted as an Indigenous botanic garden, as the project also aims to provide a place where food and medicinal plants identified as used by Aboriginal people, can grow in conditions similar to pre-colonisation. It will also be important for the Aboriginal community, as there will be involvement from local Aboriginal people in the planning, restoration and management of the area. It will also be a place for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to learn about native plants, identifying plants and their traditional uses.
The project will fund the protection component of a program to identify and undertake protection and vegetation restoration works on prioritised culturally significant Aboriginal sites in need of active environmental management on Crown, Jali Aboriginal Land Council and Ballina Shire Council land in Ballina Shire. A Jali Aboriginal sites officer, a supervisor and 4 Aboriginal workers will be employed to undertake protection, bush regeneration and land management works. Certified training by DEC and TAFE and on the job skills development will be provided. The project will foster cooperation between JALC, Bunjum Aboriginal Cooperative and Ballina Shire Council.
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Burra Bee Dee was originally known as Forky Mountain after the hill that dominates the landscape. Just as it is a significant and organising feature of the landscape, Forky Mountain was significant to the people of Burra Bee Dee as it was a birthplace, a place for burials and a food source. The project will see the building of walking tracks around the sites of the houses, church, school and living cemetery, with interpretative signs installed at these historic sites to tell the Burra Bee Dee stories.
The environmental issues this project is designed to address are the historical over clearing of the landscape for agriculture, leading to fragmentation and loss of habitat for flora and fauna, degradation of existing remnant vegetation by introduced woody weeds, and water quality issues regarding domestic stock access to riparian areas. The project also aims to re-establish native vegetation on areas previously cleared, including areas of the endangered ecological community. It includes the removal of environmental weeds from areas of remnant vegetation, fencing of riparian areas to exclude domestic stock and erection of alternative watering points for stock.
This project will ensure the protection of a midden site located on the shores of Wapengo Lake that has significant cultural and heritage values for the traditional owners of the area (Merrimans). With the support of SRCMA, a local Koori team (including a Merrimans sites officer) will trial the effectiveness of several low impact/low cost bio-engineering techniques (such as tea tree bundles, coir logs and vegetation), for dissipating wave energy and stabilising the lake bank adjoining the midden. These techniques build the capacity of the Koori team and provide future options for protecting wave effected banks in other sensitive coastal estuaries.
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Preparation weed control and planting of the site with suitable native plant species along the riparian zone of the Wingecarribee River, Moss Vale. Maintenance program following planting after four months and at 12 months. Development and production and installation of interpretive signage with low impact infrastructure of combination seat table for visiting groups to work on at the site. Development and production of double sided Aboriginal information on native species fact sheets. The local Aboriginal community intends to use the learning place and reference material as an educational growing place, welcoming all to gather round and share the knowledge.
Moree Local Aboriginal Land Council
To establish a native bush tucker garden on Aboriginal land
Grant: $34,000
To clean up the mission with a weed eradication program and then establish a native bush tucker garden which will be used as an educational tool, firstly in teaching Aboriginal people about traditional foods and medicines and secondly, to teach non-Indigenous people about our environment and its value to our community.
The Tingha town common and surrounds are of considerable cultural significance to Aboriginal people. Large areas are currently degraded due to inadequate vegetation cover, ongoing erosion and grazing pressures. The physical signs of historic tin mining activities are still evident across the common. This project aims to rehabilitate two eroding sites, one wetland and one riparian, through minor earthworks, the re-establishment of local provenance native vegetation and fencing to exclude stock. This work will help protect water quality by stabilising erosion and increasing ground cover and enhancing biodiversity by providing habitat for wildlife.
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This project focuses on producing a picture storybook that targets the three to five year age group to maintain, preserve and protect local Aboriginal cultural heritage values of the landscape in the Wellington local government area. The book will focus on significant local landmarks around Wellington. It is hoped that by producing a storybook, early literacy will also be promoted. The children attending preschool will produce artwork to be used as the illustrations for the picture book.
This project will continue the conservation works carried out by Nari Nari Tribal Council (NNTC) in the past five years. An area of 400 hectares of previously un-revegetated country has been identified and up to 6 separate areas will be targeted for revegetation efforts to provide fauna habitat and soil stabilisation.
Narwan Village Community
Clean up of the environment and development of Narwan Village
Grant: $35,000
This project is to clean up the area around the Narwan Village, plant trees and fence them off from livestock. Build a walking track between the trees with signs about the history of the area and produce a booklet about the history of the area and the locals knowledge of environmental issues.
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We presently conduct water based adventure tours for Kids at Risk, Outreach, Indigenous groups and youth from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. During these tours, we have noted an increase in rubbish, weeds and apparent reduction in water quality and an increase in riverbank erosion. To address these problems, we propose to expand the scope of our activities to incorporate an environmental awareness component, and to actively involve the participants in educational, monitoring and rehabilitation activities. We will also expand the participation in the program to include mainstream youth attending school, as well as film our activities.
The project will rehabilitate the old Sunrise (Purfleet) Indigenous Community. Ground penetrating radar will be used to locate up to 300 graves on the site, which only a few are marked. A burial index of the gravesite and names will be published. Formed access and car parking will be provided. A cemetery will be landscaped and beautified.
To enable community members to establish and maintain a bush tucker garden on a neglected parcel of land owned by Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council.
To connect water from the town supply to the reserve area, to allow native vegetation planning. This would allow further development of the camping ground where there would be little impact on culturally sensitive areas and allow the Land Council to promote community awareness of the importance of Aboriginal heritage and in particular, this special Aboriginal place.
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Page last updated: 27 February 2011
