Benwerenup Cultural Corridor: From Kardutjaanup to Koobitji

This presentation explores our program to reconnect fragmented landscapes from the headwaters of our river systems, to coastal estuaries and inshore reefs, and out to the archipelago. We share a short video that focuses on Benwenerup Cultural Corridor that links together our operations, from carbon-based revegetation, fish ecology, heritage place management, to monitoring of seabirds and sea lions, and marine biodiversity studies. Our program is based on ranger-led actions, under cultural leadership, designed to incorporate impactful partnerships, and focused on long-term behavioural change as we work towards management structures that are focused on our shared cultural corridors.

Esperance Tjaltjraak's Healthy Country Rangers are involved in a diversity of high-impact activities that are all aimed at protecting and enhancing Wudjari Country. Some of our flagship wildlife projects include surveying for Gnow/ Malleefowl in the northern woodlands and using camera traps to detect breeding seabirds on islands in the Recherche Archipelago. Plants also feature heavily in our workplans, with projects focused on how cool season cultural burning can reinvigorate Country as well as the removal of invasive plant species such as Victorian tea tree and propagation and planting of large numbers of native plants.