Working On Country - Ngunya Jargoon IPA
- 1. Reconnect, protect andrespect the land
- 2. What’s an IPA?What’san IPA?
- 4. Where’s our IPA?Where’sour IPA?
- 5. Why is itso specialWhy is it so special
- 8. How do wemanageHow do we manage it?it?
- 9. Fire planning andcontrolFire planning and control
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- 11. Feral animal controlFeralanimal control
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- 19. Our achievementsOur achievements Removed50 tonne of rubbishRemoved 50 tonne of rubbish 40 motion camera and 5 flora40 motion camera and 5 flora and fauna surveysand fauna surveys Heaps of weed control and feralHeaps of weed control and feral animal controlanimal control Heaps of planting workHeaps of planting work Heaps of cultural heritageHeaps of cultural heritage surveyssurveys Lots of visitors (schoolsLots of visitors (schools groups etc)groups etc)
- 20. Meet the teamMeetthe team
Editor's Notes
- #6 Talk about Bingal Creek
- #10 Before any plans could go forward we had to remove rubbish so there was no plastics or any flammable objects, then pick a block for a potential burn, then we sat down with our local RFS, check the leaf litter to see how much fuel was there .Through out the planning there was consultation with other ranger’s in the local area, there was a trip’s to walgett to learn about mosaic and some traditional burns With other IPA’s
- #11 Depending on the weed were working on there’s different methods to removing certain weed’s eg, Lantana we cut and paint the stem’s, climbing Asparagus we cut it off at waist height leave what’s in the tree and then cut around the main crown that is exsposed at ground level and remove the lot.
- #12 While working on the block and setting remote cameras we found that there were a lot of feral animals such as foxes, wild dogs and dingoes. These feral animals ruin habitat for a lot of threatened species such as the The whole IPA is an old shore line
- #14 While monitoring the block and working with mark graham we found out that we have 28 threatened species of fauna such as the Potaroo, grass owl, ground parrot, spotted Quoll, broad nosed bat, blossom bat ect and 7 flora species.
- #15 Old Bingle Bridge at Wardell, was one site were we worked with some of the staff from the Ramada Hotel in Ballina, 400 tress were planted, spiecies such as cassurina , tuckeroo , cottonwood , gum trees , lomandra and spider lillys , once the climbing Asparagus died off this allowed more sun light in after a couple of weeks some of the native spiecies ( Coastal cypress ) began to regenerate now the area is is working its way back to native bush.
- #16 The more time that was spent in the bush the more we began to discover that not only did we have a large number of scar tree’s throughout the IPA block we also had a large number of aboriginal stone artefact’s, after further research we were able to locate some culturally sensitive area’s within the IPA land’s that had never been discovered before, these site’s will now be recorded on the site’s register with National Park’s and Wildlife.
- #17 We had our consultant ask if we would like to try and replicate some stone artefacts, we practise with the bottom of a glass bottle and made some spear tips which wasn’t to hard but when we tried to work with proper stone cobble we found that after a while your forearm’s began to get pumped up, that was only one artefact.
- #18 Most of our training was completed on the Jali lands through Wollongbar Tafe and Envite. There were particapants from lismore, ballina, cabbage tree island. The ages ranged from 16-60 years old some of the training involved Chemical handling, Chainsaw handling , indigenous conservation and land management 1, 2 and 3 , fencing and surveying.
- #19 We sometimes have school visits, elders days, and this gives us a chance to sit down and share what we learned through out the time we’ve worked on the IPA block when we do get visitor’s it’s allways good to sit and yarn and gives other people a chance to share their knowledge with us
- #21 This is the current team We are the Mibinj Rangers We have a strong connection to this area through family We implement the Ngunya Jargoon IPA Plan
- #22 Before today, we’ve had a lot of help from other people: Community Organisations like Wetland care, Envite, LLS and the Nature Conservation Council Our neighbouring LALCs Volunteers like the staff from the Ramada