Gordonvale
- Ranger team
- Jawajawa Rangers
- Host organisation
- Dulabed and Malanbarra Yidinji Aboriginal Corporation
The Jawajawa rangers care for their traditional country around Gordonvale, within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.
Their priorities are:
- maintaining and expanding the cultural and other knowledge systems from collected field data and other sources
- monitoring of impacts of management activities such as cultural burns, pest plant and animal control on the health of Country
- identifying suitable sites and propagation techniques for re-establishment of key bush food species such as yabby weed
- re-establishing cultural fish traps in the Mulgrave River
- undertaking weed surveys and control, including Siam weed, miconia and blue thunbergia along the Gillies Range and Little Mulgrave area.