The land and communities in Australia are quite diverse, challenging and most of all amazing! To be able to look after this land and the communities in which we live is a pathway to long living conservation of our precious resources.
On that note, Angela and I ventured to Noonkanbah in WA last month to conduct an Orientation with some indigenous participants from the Yungngora Aboriginal community whom were undertaking the Certificate III in Conservation and Land Management.
The participants were committed to undertaking this course to learn and develop skills in a variety of areas in Conservation and Land Management so they could implement this on their own land and with hopes of a Ranger program.
Travelling around 4-5hrs from Broome (missing the turn off to the dirt track which lead 75km inland to the community) and battling the sweltering conditions of 47 degree heat (where you can’t even escape to a nice cold shower because the ‘cold’ water that runs out of the tap is hot from the heat on the land) the trip was a truly amazing experience for us ‘city girls’, an eye opener to the land and communities we have in Australia and the groups of participants that BCA National take on to deliver such beneficial training.
Sleeping in shipping containers, watching the men in the community play their evening football game on the dirt football field, being taken on a tour of the community and the land and even watching a Goanna be captured for lunch was the most amazing experience of the Australian Outback and what and where BCA National can deliver!
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