For the past decade, we have been collaborating with Felicity Meakins, Glenn Wightman and the Central Land Council Murnkurrumurnkurru ranger group to record Gurindji Ecological Knowledge.
In 2012 we created the Bilinarra, Gurindji and Malngin Plants and Animals book with Glenn WIghtman from the Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management and Felicity Meakins from the University of Queensland.
The Gurindji plant and animal posters project ran 2014-2018. With the Murnkurrumurnkurru ranger group, Cassandra Algy and Felicity Meakins, we created a series of four Gurindji biology poster series with QR codes. In 2018, the posters won the Northern Territory Land Resource Management (LRM) Environment & Conservation Award. The award recognises the importance of First Nation’s knowledge to understanding the ecology of Australia. We also designed teaching modules and delivered lessons at the Kalkaringi school. The project was funded by the Central Land Council and Indigenous Language and Arts (ILA).
Photo: Felicity Meakins, Ursula Chubb and Helma Bernard set up a video camera to record Gurindji elders (Photo: Brenda L. Croft 2014) [Birdproject.jpg]
Photo: Murnkurrumurnkurru ranger Kenny Ricky teaches Gurindji children about local birds with elders Ronnie Wavehill Wirrba and Paddy Doolak. (Photo: Cassandra Algy 2014) [KennyRicky.jpg]
In 2019, we created a documentary on the furthest inland sightings in Australia of the highly endangered sawfish which aired on ICTV, and was reported in the CSIRO children’s science magazine ‘Double Helix’, on NITV and the ABC Radio National Breakfast program.