K’gari (formerly Fraser Island)
- Ranger team
- Butchulla Land and Sea Rangers
- Host organisation
- Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation
The Butchulla Land and Sea rangers undertake conservation activities on Butchulla country, focused on K’gari.
Butchulla rangers’ work includes:
- cultural heritage site surveys and recording, in association with Elders, and maintenance
- fire management, both traditional fire-stick burning and managed burns in partnership with QPWS, to protect important built, environmental and cultural assets
- monitoring of species, including nesting marine turtles, threatened fresh-water fish, and of migratory bird roosting sites.
- visitor engagement and education about K’gari management issues such as wongari (dingo) education and compliance
- myrtle rust surveys on the southern end of K’gari, in partnership with the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and QPWS
- the ‘creek for a week’ marine debris clean-up program targeting local creeks and providing debris data to Tangaroa Blue
- crab pot clean-ups and joint patrols with Qld Fisheries.
- delivery of in-school and field-based junior ranger program with students from Urangan Point State School focused on ranger activities and K’gari’s natural and cultural values.