Normanton
- Ranger team
- Normanton Land Sea Rangers
- Host organisation
- Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation
Normanton rangers from the Kukatj, Gkuthaarn and Kurtijar Traditional Owner groups protect natural resources on Country in the southern gulf plains. The rangers deliver a range of on-ground activities in an area from Staaten River to Leichardt River including:
- implementation of the Gkuthaarn and Kukatj and Kurtijar Country plans
- long term monitoring of migratory shorebirds and documentation of breeding colonies of waterbird including heron, ibis and cormorant. The rangers played a central role in achieving the declaration of the internationally recognised Wernadinga and Tarrant Migratory Shorebird Flyways
- traditional knowledge transfer through school visits and the Junior Ranger program
- recording of flora and fauna species, focusing on threatened, culturally significant, data deficient species or other species of interest as highlighted in management plans
- turtle nest surveys along the Delta Downs coastline and protection of nests through marine debris monitoring and removal
- managed burns to manage weeds and protect cultural and ecological assets
- biosecurity surveillance including of marine pests along the coastline and plant and animal health.