Northern Kaanju Ngaachi Wenlock and Pascoe Rivers Indigenous Protected Area

On June 4 2008, Northern Kaanju Traditional Owners and their guests gathered on their homelands in central Cape York Peninsula to share in the celebration of the Capes first Indigenous Protected Area.

Click on image to watch the short video of the declaration for the Northern Kaanju Ngaachi Wenlock and Pascoe Rivers Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). Co-produced by the Wilderness Society and the Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation in celebration of the event - Capes York Peninsula’s first Indigenous Protected Area.
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The video records this important landmark in Indigenous conservation. The Northern Kaanju IPA is a testament to the vision and aspirations of the area’s Traditional Owners, who have strived to build a sustainable future based on ‘working for country’, since returning to their traditional homelands nearly 20 years ago.
 
The IPA encompasses 197,500 hectares of Aboriginal freehold land on the upper Wenlock and Pascoe Rivers. It is part of an area of nearly one million hectares of intact tropical environments which comprise the traditional homelands of the Northern Kaanju people. Learn more >>
 
The IPA is managed under a plan developed by Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation, a Kaanju traditional owner organisation. Chuulangun now has a team of rangers to undertake protection and management plans for the homelands, and works collaboratively with a range of interests, including the Wilderness Society.
 
The Wilderness Society and Chuulangun entered into a Cooperation Agreement in 2005. The Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project (ATNS) has recorded the agreement on its web site. Click here for more information >>
 
For more info on the Wilderness Society’s Indigenous conservation program, visit:
http://www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/indigenous-conservation