Following the success of the Case Study: Aboriginal Partnership in Forest Management webinar held in October last year, the Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) will be offering a 3-day virtual seminar Traditional Owners, Forest and Fire Management. Source: Timberbiz
The purpose of the virtual seminar is to provide a foundation for forest scientists and forest managers who are seeking insights and understanding so they can improve engagement and collaborate with traditional owners as well as offer insights into successful approaches, programs and collaborations throughout Australia.
The event will run from 20-22 April from 10am until 12 noon each day.
Tuesday 20 April: Cultural Awareness Training
- Cultural Awareness Training John Shipp, Wanggaapuwan Man, Western NSW Forestry Corporation of NSW
Wednesday 21 April: Traditional Owners & Fire Management: Caring for Country
- Introduction to cool burning & traditional fire practices
Rachel Cavanagh, Yugambeh women of northern NSW and south east QLD
- Community Programs & Stakeholder Engagement; Firesticks Alliance
- Right fire; right place Dr Jack Pascoe, Yuin man
- Conservation and Research Manager; Conservation Ecology Centre
- Aboriginal people & the bushfire crisis
- Case study: Community engagement and traditional fire management by John Shipp, Wanggaapuwan Man, Western NSW Team Leader Aboriginal Partnerships; Forestry Corporation of NSW
Thursday 22 April: Traditional Owners & Active Land Management
- Pre-colonial (pre-evasion) land management practices A/Prof Michael Fletcher, Wiradjuri man
- Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
- Case study: Carbon farming: Savannah burning as a business generating environmental, community and greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits by Joanne Nelson & Richard King, Northern Kaanju people; Batavia Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation Daryl Killin; Savanna Program Manager, Natural Carbon
- Case study: Tiwi Islands, timber production & Tiwi employment by Marbeen Austral, Tiwi Woman Hanna Lillicrapp, Resource Forester, Midway
- Case study: Traditional Owners safeguarding biodiversity and building resilience
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