25- Indigenous Management Strategies - THOP

1. LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT BY
ABORIGINAL AND TORRES
STRAIGHT ISLANDER PEOPLES
Topic One

2. What is firestick farming and why do it?
Be ready to discuss what you think after watching
◻ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRjHTqn7mc
◻ Develop a class statement that answers the above questions

3. Landscape management and protection
Learning Goal
◻ To identify ways Indigenous people manage and protect
landscapes
Success Criteria
◻ I can name past and current ways Indigenous people manage
landscapes
◻ I can explain how two or more Indigenous landscape
management strategies work

4. Indigenous Landscape Management
Strategies
Write this down ☺
◻ Stewardship – strategy where Aboriginal peoples act as
protectors of the land
◻ Firestick farming – a stewardship strategy that allows
management of forest resources
◻ Tourism management – a stewardship strategy that allows for
management and planning for visitors while protecting the land

5. Your task
Your task is to design TWO strategies to protect Uluru.
You should include:
- strategies
- description of how to protect the site
- why tourism is important to Uluru

6. Landscape Management at Uluru and Kata-
Tjuta
◻ Search for “Conserving Uluru”: Use the website links to complete the
activities below
1. Describe TWO ways that are being used to protect the LANDSCAPE at the Uluru
and Kata-Tjuta National Park (http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/national-
parks/uluru-kata-tjuta-national-park/management-and-conservation/conserving-
uluru)
2. Describe TWO ways that culture is being preserved from the Uluru and Kata-Tjuta
National Park (look for Oral and Technology methods)
(http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/national-parks/uluru-kata-tjuta-national-
park/culture-and-history)

7. Landscape management and
Protection
Success Criteria
◻ I can name a number of ways Indigenous people manage
landscapes
◻ I can explain how two or more Indigenous landscape management
strategies work
Exit Ticket:
Write YOUR name
Write ONE type of Indigenous landscape management strategy
Write ONE sentence saying how it works