Environment
Protecting Country: Land Care, Science and Shared Responsibility
A new generation of scientists, farmers and Indigenous rangers are re-imagining how Australians care for the continent.
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Australia's landscapes are ancient, fragile and, increasingly, on the front line of a changing climate. From reef systems to river red gum forests, the question is no longer whether to act — it is how well we can listen.
Indigenous ranger programs are showing what long-view custodianship looks like in practice: cool burning, water management, native seed banking. Their partnerships with universities and CSIRO are producing some of the most quietly ambitious environmental science in the country.
Protecting Country is not a specialist job. It is a shared inheritance — one that begins with the household water bill and ends with national policy.
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