Northern Australian Aboriginal communities are working together to
develop conservation management plans for dugongs and turtles.
The Federal Government has allocated $3.8 million over the next three
years towards their conservation.
The North Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance
(NAILSMA) says some Aboriginal communities are already involved in
collecting discarded fishing nets that dugongs and turtles become
trapped in.
NAILSMA chairman Gearhardt Pearson says the plan is to extend these
types of initiatives across northern Australia.
"We hope to have regional plans for the Kimberleys, the Northern
Territory, the Torres Strait and Cape York and then we will come
together and we will start funding projects, be it research projects,
direct on ground projects etc," he said. |
