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Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers

The Land and Sea Program is one of the programs under the repsonsibility of the Mapoon Aboriginal Shire Council.  

Under a strong partnership with traditional owners involved with the Old Mapoon Aboriginal Corporation, the program is carried out on the traditional lands of Tjungundji, Yupungathi Warrangku, Taepithiggi, Thanakwith and Mpakwithi peoples. 

The Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers commenced operation in 2008, continuing tirelessly to look after their community, culture and country.  Rangers are based at the Jean Jimmy Land and Sea Centre, managing 183,000 ha of Mapoon Deed of Grant of Land in Trust (DOGIT) lands, spread along 80km of coastline over three major river catchments. 

Contributing with an amazinigly diverse set of skills, the Rangers are involved in marine turtle monitoring and protection, weed and feral animal control, wetland conservation, the re-introduction of traditional fire management techniques and the development of a database, ghost net and marine debris removal, and mapping traditional knowledge and geographic information.

The Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers are a founding member group of the Western Cape Turtle Threat Abatement Alliance and play a key role in reducing threats to vulnerable and endangered marine turtles nesting on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. 

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