Caring for country and sustainable Indigenous development: Opportunities, constraints and innovation

摘要: This paper explores how Indigenous community-based natural resource management can generate both conservation benefit and economic development opportunity. We begin by noting that much of the estate in north Australia is either thinly populated or unpopulated. There emerging evidence that, situations where people live on their country, ecological wider benefits are generated via favourable fire regimes, control over weed infestations, potentially through feral animal harvesting. When they for themselves harvesting wildlife consumption engage with market sector using resources commercial enterprise like arts crafts production. argue there a strong correlation between such activities cost-effective management. Links landcare, use biodiversity need to be recognized, celebrated supported. The removal many barriers enhanced innovative participation activities, equitable public support programs Landcare, will facilitate sustainable options compatible priorities, while ameliorating disadvantage.