Working with Firesticks Casino Boolangle Local Area Land Council (LALC) is considering projects on various properties. Following site visits to Dobies Bight, Busby’s Flat and Wyan in May 2014 it was suggested that Dobies Bight presents an opportunity to manage an area of high conservation value that is easily accessible from Casino. Following a walk […]
As part of an International study tour, representatives from Canada, U.S.A and Mexico enjoyed lemon myrtle bush tea whist discussing the vision of Firesticks around a campfire on Ngunya Jargoon IPA.
The International visitors viewed the Firesticks talk as a tour highlight and have requested to maintain ongoing engagement to exchange fire management strategies, especially with […]
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW hosted “Fire Friction and Cultural Connections” workshop programs which were delivered in collaboration with Fat Kangaroo (Dr Miles Holmes and Matt Forde), Macquarie University’s National Indigenous Science Education Program and the Maclean High School.
Participants gathered from across Yaegl and Bundjalung Nations, with others joining from Coffs Harbour and Sydney […]
This project is a partnership between land owner (Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council), land manager (Dorrabee Grassland Trust) and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW through the Firesticks Project.
This contract enabled the Nimbin Rocks Rangers and the Dorrabee Grassland Trust to build up a relationship to work this site under one management plan to restore the […]
Awarded International Institute of Information Design (IIID) Editor’s Choice Award 2011. Designed for Bushfires in the Landscape Conference 2011, NSW Conservation Council.
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Designed by Jacqueline Gothe and Lyndal Harris
Content development: Jacqueline Gothe with Peta Standley, Kuku Thaypan Fire Management Project, Kuku Thaypan Elders Tommy George, George Musgrave Snr (sadly deceased), Victor Steffensen, Mulong and Traditional Knowledge […]
Gugin Gudduba LALC lands are approximately 150 hectares and adjoins freehold lands that provide connections to Nightcap and Border Ranges World Heritage Areas and include the distinctive “Helmet” landform which is home of the endangered Eastern Bristle Bird. This area supports highly productive rainforest ecosystems and shrubby and grassy wet sclerophyll forests. Gudgin Gudduba LALC […]
The 5th joint meeting of the Ecological Societies of New Zealand and Australia, in Auckland, New Zealand, November 2013.
Oliver Costello, Firesticks Coordinator took part in a moving opening welcome by the local Maori hapu (sub-tribe) Ngati Whatua Orakei. Oliver, one of the stolen generations of the Bundjalung people presented a traditional message stick, conveying the […]
Oliver Costello (Firesticks Coordinator) and Tein MacDonald (Minyumai IPA) presented at the 9th Biennial NCCNSW Bushfire Conference which examined the importance of holistic fire management in increasing the resilience of our landscapes and communities in a changing climate.
The conference introduced the concept of socio-ecological resilience, which focused on the interrelationship between people and the environment […]
