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DARUMBAL CROWN-OF-THORNS STARFISH MANAGEMENT

Developing the leadership skills and capabilities to manage COTS, and building COTS and SCUBA skills through training. 

LEADING. INSPIRING. HEALING.

Traditional Owners are leaders in the largest-ever effort to protect the Reef and its Catchments.

PARTNERSHIPS & TRAINING ARE BRINGING BIG RESULTS FOR GUNGGANDJI-MANDINGBALBAY YIDINJI RANGERS

Networking and forming vital partnerships.

JABALBINA IS SAFEGUARDING THEIR TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Preserving Elders’ knowledge of water management

HEALING MIXED WATER ON KOINMERBURRA COUNTRY

Creating a long-term restoration plan for the St Lawrence Wetlands

PRESERVING COUNTRY AND CULTURE

Goondoi is healing Country through education and connection to culture

GENUINE CO-DESIGN AND CO-DELIVERY

As part of the Reef Trust Partnership, Traditional Owners are delivering long-held aspirations and goals.

Healthy Water

Fostering transformational change by removing barriers for Indigenous-led projects.

Integrated Monitoring & Reporting

Better data, better outcomes by weaving together the “two ways of knowing”.

Reef Restoration & Adaptation Science

Creating equity and changing the conversation for Traditional Owners.

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) Control Program

Equipping Traditional Owners of the Reef – for today and beyond.

WHERE IT BEGAN

Learn the origin story of our unprecedented co-design approach to program delivery and how it’s positioning Traditional Owners as central partners in the care, management and protection of the Great Barrier Reef and its catchment.

OUR JOURNEY: PART 2

A four-part series exploring the origins of the revolutionary co-design approach that’s leading to better outcomes for the Reef and for Traditional Owners.

THE IMPORTANCE OF CO-DESIGN

In partnership with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Traditional Owners are at the centre of the largest ever co-designed Reef protection effort. By weaving Traditional Knowledge with Western science, they’re developing and applying innovative solutions to the challenges threatening the Reef. See how co-design is leading to better outcomes for Traditional Owners and the Reef.

TRADITIONAL OWNER ADVISORY GROUP

TRADITIONAL OWNER TECHNICAL WORKING GROUPS

Acknowledgement and Content Advice
Our Reef Stories acknowledges and pays respect to past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have passed away.
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