Antinuclear

Launched on Sunday, it is a rainbow connection of about 1200 of the world’s indigenous rangers and land and sea managers. It will hear the mangrove people of Bangladesh on the challenge of climate change. The forest people of Madagascar and the Republic of Benin will talk about ecotourism. It will hear from the Bedouin of Egypt, the Maori and indigenous delegates from Brazil, Mexico, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Mongolia, the Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and more countries……

Arnhem Land traditional owners used the event’s launch to celebrate the creation of Australia’s first government-recognised indigenous protected area over the sea. The new Dhimurru IPA will extend 40 kilometres out to sea from the Gove Peninsula and cover 450,000 hectares of water around the north-western tip of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

With the support of the federal and Northern Territory governments, the Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation will manage the conservation of the sea territory in collaboration with quarantine, customs and fisheries authorities.

”It’s important because, in our culture, we have to look after the land and the sea,” says Dhimurru ranger Lisa Dhurrkay, 25. Their responsibility doesn’t stop at the shoreline, she says.

Four IPAs covering more than 85,000 square kilometres were declared in Western Australia’s Kimberley last week…. http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/1528298/native-voices-join-together-at-conference/?cs=7