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Title: Aboriginal owned and jointly managed national parks: Caring for cultural imperatives and conservation outcomes
Contributor(s): Collins, Julie  (author)orcid ; Thompson, Warlpa Kutjika (author)
Publication Date: 2021
DOI: 10.4324/9780429299025-7
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29850
Abstract: In Australia, Indigenous people contest the idea that any place, land, sea or sky, can be undisturbed wilderness; everywhere has a story and a cultural context. Aboriginal land management is conceptualised as 'Caring for Country', where Country is home; cared for in the proper way, it is 'quiet'. By contrast, land, sea or sky that is uncared for, where forms of traditional custodianship have been disrupted and denied access, is 'wild', without songs and ceremonies (Rose 1996, 19). 'Country', as an IUCN cultural value, underpins a great diversity of management regimes in Australia, from state-owned national parks to Indigenous lands, owned under freehold or native title. Indigenous Protected Areas comprise 44.6 per cent of the National Reserve System not including Aboriginal owned and jointly managed national parks and other co-management arrangements. This chapter examines Indigenous participation in the Australian conservation estate with a focus on Aboriginal owned and jointly managed national parks in New South Wales, and the caring of land for cultural imperatives as well as biodiversity conservation outcomes. A first-hand account of Aboriginal land management from the Chairperson of the Board of Mutawintji National Park, Warlpa Kutijika Thompson, explores the relationship of Aboriginal Owners to the conservation estate, reinforced through the relational values of Aboriginal land management and through the power of storytelling.
This chapter examines Indigenous participation in the Australian conservation estate with a focus on Aboriginal owned and jointly managed national parks in New South Wales, and the caring of land for cultural imperatives as well as biodiversity conservation outcomes. Aboriginal land management is conceptualised as ‘Caring for Country’, where Country is home; cared for in the proper way, it is ‘quiet’. Aboriginal owned and jointly managed national parks also make a significant, if more modest contribution to the National Reserve System. The pastoralists displaced the Aboriginal owners during the 1870s. Bullets, disease and dispersal greatly diminished the Aboriginal population of the area. The rent that’s paid by the State to the Aboriginal Owners of Mawintjis is paid into three accounts; one of them is land purchase; the other one is for seeding and the third for community development.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence, p. 87-104
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780429299025
9780367279851
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 210202 Heritage and Cultural Conservation
050201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge
050205 Environmental Management
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 450303 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental conservation
410404 Environmental management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 961309 Remnant Vegetation and Protected Conservation Areas in Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Environments
900302 Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism
950302 Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 210402 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander connection to land and environment
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1196317444
Series Name: Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
Editor: Editor(s): Robyn Bartel, Marty Branagan, Fiona Utley and Stephen Harris
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Education
School of Health
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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