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Desert Projects

Research

The IDA’s Desert Projects program works closely with IDA Member organisations, Traditional Owners, Indigenous rangers and scientific partners to develop and implement two-way science projects that involve collaborative exchange between Indigenous and scientific knowledge systems based on mutual respect and responsibility. 

The research undertaken informs the planning, implementation and reporting of collaborative land management activities, and allows those activities to be adapted to best deliver interlinked cultural, environmental and economic benefits.

Cailtin Thomas (GACS Rangers), Hannah Cliff (IDA) and Pricilla Reynolds (GACS Rangers) check on a cameratrap being used for mound based monitoring of Malleefowl on Morapoi Station.

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"I’ve got my mother who knows about all of this [Malleefowl], you know, but working two ways, you know, scientists and Aboriginal people working together. Get everything in motion and don’t stand back and wait… We’re going to get people coming out or helping us to go, okay, this is what we need to do, you know, and this is how we can work together.”

Fifi Harris, Tjiwarl

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