K’gari (formerly Fraser Island)

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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.

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