Indigenous Rangers
Roebuck Plains: Cameras detect rare wallabies, feared extinct
Yawuru rangers have found rare spectacled hare wallabies at Roebuck Plains.
The World Wildlife Fund trained the rangers to operate remote wildlife cameras, which they set and left running for two months.
Science Network WA [read this story]
Winjanna Gorge: Survey nets plenty of crocs
Bunuba Rangers and wildlife officers have caught and released about half the freshwater crocs in two dry-season pools.
Freshwater crocodile
They took measurements and genetic samples in a bid to learn more about the crocodiles before cane toads arrive.
Science Network [read this story]
New wildlife found on offshore islands
Indigenous rangers and scientists have found “new” populations of quolls and golden-backed tree rats on offshore islands.
You can read a media release here:
Jimmy Pike fire book now a video
The late Jimmy Pike’s produced an illustrated book about traditional desert fire technology.
The Art of Fire has been made into a video.
It has been animated, with a voice-over in the Western Desert language Manyjilyjarra for the use of Martu Rangers and kids.
Manyjilyjarra is an east-Pilbara language. The Canning Stock Route crosses the traditional land.
Beagle Bay: Crocodile trapping program
Wildlife officers and Nyul Nyul rangers have laid baited traps in waters near Beagle Bay community.
Courtesy DEC
The move comes after a large crocodile nudged a dinghy.
Dampier Peninsula: Missing teenage boy
An intellectually-disabled teenage boy has been missing from a Dampier Peninsula community since yesterday morning.
Yesterday Bardi-Jawi and Nyul-Nyul Rangers and Dampier Peninsula Police searched for him for most to the day.
He was reported missing from La Djadarr Bay, about 140 kilometres north of Broome, at 10:00am yesterday.
The West Australian [read this story]
SES staff and volunteers joined the search.
You can read a media release here:
Dampier Peninsula: Rare finches still breeding
A Gouldian finch - courtesy Wikimedia
Indigenous rangers have confirmed Gouldian Finches are still present and breeding on the Dampier Peninsula.
The rangers observed the birds while carrying out weed control on monsoon vine thickets.
You can read a statement from Environs Kimberley, The World Wildlife Fund, Kimberley Land Council and the Bardi Jawi Rangers here:
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