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H o w d o w e k n o w i f w e a r e a c h i e v i n g o u r v i s i o n- T w o m o b s , O n e r i v e r
NE R P 2 .2
KAANTJU COUNTRY
This is some of the Kaantju country. Our country is approximately 400,000 hectaresKaantju lands are situated on central Cape York between Umpilla clan estates
to the east and Wik Mungkan clan estates to the West
• Kalan Enterprises is a family business, comprised of some Southern Kaantju families
• Provides land management services, cultural heritage initiatives, business development and supports personal and skills development of Traditional Owners
• 9 FT staff and 6 Casuals, all Cert 111 levels C&LM, 1 Ba Commerce final year student, 1 cert 4 business, 1 specialist languages and ethno-botany.
• Last three years, focused on developing the work team and building core land management capabilities and cultural heritage services
Kaantju people managing Kaantju country
Kaantju people managing Kaantju country
• In 2012 commenced a planning process to guide the organisation forward
• The outcome of our planning helped us to understand that; you can’t have healthy country, if the people aren’t healthy and our culture isn’t kept strong, and this can be in any order.
• In our plan;
• We made a clear vision and mission statements (our dreams)
• Our Dream is to bring our country back to life like it was before by being on country to protect our sites and share our proud culture with the rest of the world. We will work to manage our country and nurture the biodiversity so that our country will keep its clean running rivers and we will see healthy populations of mantapa (plains turkey) and numpi (emu) roaming the open grassy flats.
• Agreed on Targets and their current health
• Understood the threats to our targets
Now we are working towards implementing our plans
• Kalan wants to change the colours on our tables
Kaantju people managing Kaantju country
AURUKUN CAPE YORK
General Information• Cape York’s largest Aboriginal community• Covers 750,000 hectares• 5 ritual clan groups• 42 family groups• Broader Wik Native Title estate covers 2.5
million hectares• Communities of Napranum, Coen, Aurukun
& Pormpuraaw
• 2009 Reactive response to environmental policy frameworks around
the Wild Rivers legislation
• Over 2009 and 2010 Families came together to discuss formal
response and engage, Federal Government, QLD Government, regional
orgs and key stakeholders
• 2010 – 2011 Families come together to map out aspirations for country,
community, themselves and each-other
• Then discuss the vehicle in which they will drive to reach these
outcomes
• 2011 Establishment of Aak Puul Ngantam to assist families achieving
these outcomes
• A vehicle to assist our outcomes and aspirations- utilising Government
and strategically chosen key partners to help us on our journey
• Our framework is an Aboriginal led bio-cultural approach
Aak Puul Ngantam
5 Ritual Clan Groups
42 Family Groups
Ngan Aak Kunch RNTBC
APN Cape York
Sara
Winychanam
Apalech
Puch
Wanam
Wik Registered Native TitlePrescribed Body Corporate
Aak Puul NgantamTrading as APN Cape York
Community Engagement
Training & Employment
Bio-cultural Management
Ecosystem services
School Camp
Carbon/Emissions Trading
APN Corporate Services
Bookkeeping
wholly owned subsidiary wholly owned subsidiary
APN Pastoral Co.
Aurukun Property
Herd Development
Contract Mustering
Cropping
Fattening Properties
APN Construction
Labour Hire
APN Commercial
Tourism
Mechanics
Bakery
Butcher
Aak Puul Ngantam
Current Monitoring and Evaluation ContextBiophysical Asset
Management Target
Biophysical Science
Current MERI
Traditional Owner Vision and AspirationsHealthy Country Healthy Culture Healthy
People and Livelihoods
Traditional Knowledge
Country & People
Indigenous enterprise
Dealing with
change
Future Monitoring and Evaluation Context
Biophysical Science
FUTURE MERI
Traditional Owner Vision and AspirationsBio-cultural Asset Management
Healthy Country Healthy Culture Healthy People and Livelihoods
Traditional Knowledge
Country & People
Indigenous enterprise
Dealing with
change
This research is part of the National Environmental Research Program Northern Australia Hub. For more information about the Northern
Australia Hub go to www.nerpnorthern.edu.au The research is supported by funding from the Australian Government’s
National Environmental Research Program www.environment.gov.au/nerp
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAak Puul Ngantam Pty Ltd, Kalan Enterprises Pty Ltd, Balkanu Cape York Development CorporationAnthropos Pty Ltd, Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO) and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Interdisciplinary research team includes: Bruce Martin: CEO APN Cape YorkHorace Wikmunea: Senior APN
RangerTim Jaffer: Executive Director
Kalan Enterprises Dion Creek: Projects DirectorLucretia Creek: Administration
Manager Kalan EnterprisesNaomi Creek: DirectorDr David Martin: Anthropos
Pty LtdDr Justin Perry: CSIROEllie Austin: Balkanu Pty LtdMelissa Sinclair: APN Cape
York and University of New South Walesand other traditional owners
as they choose.
RESEARCH QUESTION AND APPROACHResearch Question• How applicable and adaptable are the CFOC and WOC ME frameworks to local
community’s broader indigenous sustainable livelihood plans and work-programs. • When these tools are adapted by communities in this way how well do they
support; strategic and adaptive responses to environment changes and environmental policy conditions; identification of potential sustainable livelihoods options; appropriate governance and decision making and institutional contexts within which it occurs; and improvements to local livelihoods, socio-economic conditions and sustainability at a local scale in Cape York? Approach/Method
• Two traditional owner groups in central Cape York in partnership with CSIRO, Anthropos Consulting and Balkanu will;
• adapt the ME frameworks for CFOC and WOC to their broader sustainable livelihoods plans and work programs,
• trial these, and • over two years review outcomes in relation to impact on sustainable livelihood
outcomes at the local scale whilst maintain reporting commitments to external stakeholders i.e. funders.
• From this work recommendations will be developed for similar applications for indigenous communities elsewhere.