Gawler Ranges Aboriginal Corporation

Ceduna Area School - Kids on Country Program - JUNE 2022

The Kids on Country Camp Program is held at Nature Foundation’s two largest Nature Reserves:

• Hiltaba Nature Reserve located on the traditional lands of the Gawler Ranges People – Kokatha, Bungala and Wirangu, 750 km North West of Adelaide.

Nature Foundation delivered its second Kids on Country camp for Ceduna Ares School at Hiltaba Nature Reserve from Monday 27 June to Friday 01 July 2022. Facilitators included Katie Perry (Kids on Country Coordinator), Warren Milera
(Aboriginal Cultural Facilitator), Helen Palmer (Ranger), Ben McCallum (Community Ecologist) and Alice (Ecology Field Technician) from SA Arid Lands Landscape Board and Gawler Ranges Aboriginal Corporation Director Leslee Warrior.

The program provides young Aboriginal people the opportunity to participate in ‘on-country’ camps, where they have the space to develop, nurture and grow their ambition to pursue further study and evaluate career opportunities. The camps have a culture-first approach, where participants are afforded the opportunity to grow under the mentorship of senior Aboriginal people, whilst engaging in practical on-country studies in conservation and land management.

The program provides young Aboriginal people aged between 12 and 18 with:

• Skills and knowledge in conservation and land management practices;
• Opportunities to build on skills and aptitudes for personal growth and long-term success and development;
• Transmission of Traditional ecological and cultural knowledge, stories and practice by
Aboriginal Key Stakeholders including Elders.
• A program that is linked to secondary school curriculum
• Improved health and wellbeing through connection to nature and country;
• A platform to share knowledge.

Thanks to Katie Perry (Youth Programs Coordinator) at Nature Foundation for allowing us to share these photos and content.

Providing another perspective on country through the eyes of a drone is amazing.

Showing our GRAC Director’s Leslee Ladybird Warrior, Doris McNamara and Tracy Reid the DJI FPV Goggles on country was beautiful.

Also getting young kids back on country and using drones was a good merge of technology and elders knowledge on country.

More to come…

Casual Field Work

Nature Foundation is looking for casual field officers to assist with science-based monitoring and conservation programs both on and off Nature Foundation remote reserves.

Applications are encouraged from individuals who are interested in developing flora and fauna survey capabilities. Previous experience with field work is desirable but not essential.

The successful candidates will be physically fit, be willing to learn new survey techniques and be available for 12 days at a time for remote travel within SA and WA

The next 12 day work trip is a vegetation survey at Hiltaba Nature Reserve in the Gawler Ranges, between Tues 19- Sat 30 April.

• 9 days field work – early starts, 10 hour days
• 2 paid days travel to/from Hiltaba,
• 1 paid rest day half way through the trip
• All meals provided
• Travel and Accommodation provided

Please contact Liam Crook, Nature Solutions Program Coordinator - [email protected] or call 0412 472 346