Indigenous Land Management

Looking back on an exciting and challenging 2024

2024 was another big year collaborating with numerous Indigenous organisations to support a range of different projects. Highlights include:

  • Completing one Healthy Country Planning project from start to finish and initiating another planning project with an Indigenous community.

  • Facilitating the full-term review of an Indigenous Protected Area Plan of Management.

  • Supporting the development of a regional MERI project involving multiple Indigenous Ranger Groups and creating several stand-alone MERI frameworks.

  • Assisting an Indigenous organisation with strategic planning.

  • Helping numerous Indigenous communities prepare grant submissions to secure funding for land management initiatives.

  • Leading workshops to inform cultural and environmental impact assessment frameworks for Indigenous communities.

I feel privileged to work with so many incredible communities, strong Indigenous leaders, and innovative thinkers. Thank you for the opportunities in 2024! I’m looking forward to another year of collaboration, where together, we push boundaries for Indigenous People and Local Communities around the world.

New publication: Incorporating uncertainty in indigenous sea country monitoring with bayesian statistics: Towards more informed decision making

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have been engaged with the Bardi Jawi Rangers for many years and in this project explored how Bayesian statistics can help to incorporate uncertainty into viability rankings and indicators ratings of their Healthy Country Plan.

You can download the open source article in the Ambio magazine HERE. Many thanks to Katherine Cure, Jim Underwood and the Bardi Jawi Rangers to be part of this exciting publication.

New publication: Integrating Social Value in Landscape Planning: Experiences from Working with Indigenous Communities in Australia

Together with David Hinchley, Damien Parriman, Mike Heiner and James Fitzsimons we wrote a book-chapter titled “Integrating Social Value in Landscape Planning: Experiences from Working with Indigenous Communities in Australia” for the publication Social Value, Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship: Insights from Theory and Practice.

In this article we explore how Healthy Country Planning and Development by Design can assist Indigenous Groups in Australia increasing the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in the land-use decision making process.