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Serious Investment Needed for Indigenous Rangers

National media echoes the call for more Indigenous Ranger jobs in WA- "The need for this work is not going away, it's only getting more urgent." The Karajarri Rangers in Western Australia's...

MEDIA RELEASE: Country Needs People Welcomes WA Labor’s Commitment to Aboriginal Rangers

MEDIA RELEASE January 23, 2025 WA Environment Minister Reece Whitby and Premier Roger Cook announce expansion to WA's Aboriginal Ranger Program Country Needs People, the national non-profit which supports Aboriginal Rangers, today...

Queensland Petition Launched - Get Behind Queensland's Indigenous Rangers

Before the 2024 Queensland Election, tell your local candidates that the work of Indigenous Rangers is critical and needs to be continued. The Queensland Indigenous Land & Sea Ranger program is an...

Threatened wallaby species gets a lifeline thanks to Indigenous rangers

From The Guardian, Oliver Milman, 9 September 2015. A threatened species of wallaby has been thrown a lifeline by the work of Indigenous rangers in a remote part of Western Australia.

ABC Capricornia: Indigenous ranger teaches lost skills to youth

From ABC Capricornia, Alice Roberts, 9 June 2015. A central Queensland ranger says he is passing down valuable knowledge to Indigenous youth to ensure it is kept for future generations.

ABC: Gladstone Indigenous ranger program gets youth off the couch and back to country

From ABC, Alice Roberts, 3 June 2015 A Queensland Indigenous group have been working hard on developing a program they say will help keep young people engaged with country and culture.

The Australian: Back to country — and a better way of life

From The Australian, Paige Taylor, 23 March 2015. Mulyatingki Chapman was born at Nyinyiri near the Canning Stock Route, possibly in 1941, and grew up amid the desert dunes, spinifex grasslands and...

Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa: Waru Trailer

Martu Rangers and Traditional Owners talk about fire in the desert.

ABC Rural: Aboriginal rangers target feral pigs

From ABC Rural, Virginia Tapp, 18 July 2013 Aboriginal rangers in the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria have culled 40,000 feral pigs in the last five years.

Country Needs People is a national not-for-profit organisation born from the support of hundreds of Traditional Owners around the country.

We pay our respects to all the First Nations people around Australia and their unbroken commitment to keep Country strong on land and sea. We acknowledge Indigenous partners, Traditional Owners, Elders past, present and emerging and extend our appreciation of their support and guidance of our daily work.

ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE, ABORIGINAL LAND.