Archer Point
- Ranger team
- Yuku Baja Muliku Rangers
- Host organisation
- Yuku-Baja-Muliku Landowner & Reserves Ltd
The Yuku Baja Muliku people are traditional custodians of Archer Point, near Cooktown. Yuku Baja Muliku Rangers care for their country, bordering the world-heritage listed Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics, to protect its rich biodiversity and cultural values.
Yuku Baja Muliku rangers:
- Record and protect important cultural sites including story places and ceremonial sites, fish traps, middens, fish habitats and camp sites
- Engage young people through a weekly Junior Ranger after-school program, Junior Ranger camps and a school holiday cadetship program
- Manage weed incursions and fire near cultural sites
- Maintain fencing of Poole’s lagoon to exclude feral animals
- Monitor water flows in the Annan River
- Patrol land and sea country for illegal camping and fishing
- Monitor nesting marine turtles to protect them from predation
- Undertake fire management to promote and protect the region’s biodiversity, using traditional and modern methods
- Coordinate the Queensland Indigenous Women Rangers Network, to provide a forum for women rangers from remote and isolated communities to share experiences and connections.