Aboriginal NRM

The Noongar Budjar Rangers have returned to Aldersyde to revisit the site where last year they planted over 34ha of sandalwood hosts.

The Noongar Budjar Rangers were happy to spend time last week with the Honourable Kim Beazley AC - Governor of WA at an event with the Shire of Northam at the BKB Centre.

Our Noongar Budjar Rangers have gone back to the Edna May mine at Westonia to help with their tree planting program.

Noongar Budjar Ranger Tommy Garlett jumped at the opportunity to share his stories about Ballardong country with a group of interested people from the Wheatbelt Development Commission and DPIRD including Minister Alannah McTiernan at a meeting at Burlong Pool.

Did you know the diet of the Noongar people of south-west WA was based on the 6 season’s calendar and that Noongar law required that no seed-bearing plant could be dug up until after flowering?

Wheatbelt NRM's Noongar Budjar Rangers are expanding their skill set by completing soil sampling at one of our demonstration farm sites.

Wheatbelt NRM’s Noongar Boodjar Rangers are healing country by expanding into the blossoming native seed collection industry.

Wheatbelt NRM’s Noongar Budjar Rangers celebrated months of hard work at the official opening of the Noongar Land Enterprise Group’s Boola Boornap tree nursery in Northam last week.

Our Noongar Budjar Ranger Team has been working in the field over the last few months to develop their skills in collecting and processing native seeds for revegetation purposes.

This year we celebrated the NAIDOC Week theme of Heal Country! quite literally by joining staff member Jermaine (Bomber) Davis and our Noongar Boodjar Rangers in a native planting day on Gogulgar Bilya (Avon River).