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Caring for Country: 12 new Indigenous protected areas revealed
Australian Community Media
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7/11/2024
Across Australia, the government has established 12 new Indigenous Protected Areas to be managed by First Nations groups.
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This is an amazing thing for my past generations, for my ancestors.
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The Australian Government has announced 12 new Indigenous Protected Areas
00:12
that will be managed by First Nations groups.
00:15
The total area is 7.5 million hectares of land and 450,000 hectares of sea.
00:24
That's an area the size of Tasmania.
00:27
We're here at the beautiful Bellinger River today and this is one Indigenous Protected Area.
00:33
We're talking about the Pilbara, Coorbarpiti, Cape York, East Arnhem Land,
00:38
right across this country in a whole range of different landscape types.
00:45
First Nations Rangers are employed to care for Country and protect threatened species.
00:52
For my ancestors, they weren't allowed to look after this land,
00:56
so they've passed down through generations the responsibility to look after that land.
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So for me now, to be able to stand up and be given the right to look after our lands
01:07
and turn them tables back to where the traditional custodians' practices are the keys to the future,
01:13
there isn't words in the language that I know to really express how important that is to us as people.
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