Watch stories from local farmers, graziers, community volunteers, and traditional owners that showcase the wise use and management of our natural assets. Fitzroy Basin Association is the peak group coordinating efforts to improve the health of landscapes, waterways and biodiversity in central Queensland.
This is awesome info! I've been growing Australian natives for medicinal reasons and found soap tree leaves (the young tender ones) are really effective on hangovers and nausea/headaches etc also)
Wait . A Sec! Sorry Boss Sir Steve Kemp? Hey i actually broke the lemon tree leaves and use to rub it on my arms Legs no one guided me I then found less irritation but mosquito still were lining up
Ayy thr uncle my name Benjamin from down south I from kingdom of Wiradjuri) I need some spiritual help asap could you sling me number for spiritual helper!/ elder with that (OLD)! Knowledge… Wiradjuri my kingdom please unc need help so stuck at the moment
This is the type of knowledge as a white fella I want to learn and pass on to my family. The First Nation People have an abundance of knowledge that truly needs to be preserved for future generations to come. 🖤💛❤️
Truck drivers/commuters could have dashcams with a recording buffer so you only have to press a button with 30 seconds of seeing it to record dead koala sightings along the roads. The photo/video will have the gps location and time in the metadata of the file. Which will help identify collision hotspots.
For anyone who truly cares for this continent, they can address the biggest problem. Evaporation. It is why you can look on google earth and see mostly orange. If you wish to help, plant trees that start rainforests, build topsoil and release chemical and biological mist into the air that causes regular rainfall. Start with native Mulberry, Bleeding Heart and Macaranga. They grow fast, drop their leaves on the ground to create humous (the layer of rainforest floor that holds water like a sponge). Think of Eucalypts as a weed that destroys rainforests , cause fires and causes any land to eventually become desert/dead. Finally, plant Black Booyong, hoop pine, fig etc. Basically any Gondwana Rainforest tree other than Eucalyptus trees or their naughty pyro friends the Acacia. Interestingly enough, Aboriginal dreamtime is based on the hallucinogenic effects of smoking acacia (dmt) It's almost as if the Eucalypts, Acacias and the drug induced elders were hell bent on burning down all the old growth forests. After all they did burn the forest to cause the animals to hop out the other side so they could spear them. Cared for country my arse. They were selfish, self preservationists just like the Europeans
A question just for my own curiosity. I watched a conservation program recently. It has to do with basic commonsense. Any proper engineering or building construction starts with knowing your levels. From where you start, to where you intend to finish. The program that I watched empathised the importance of dumpy-levels, for larger properties laser-levels. So getting your hands on the appropriate level to start with is critical. To map the entire area would be the next consideration. Maybe there are resources available from technology services. With drone photography & mapping. Like everything in life it comes back to what you can afford. But having that blue-print plan , you can start with your land swailes and purposefully dug retention barriers. Or deep ripping while working on your ground hydrology. With that ground work in place, and dams as a fail-safe measure for the good times. With most of water being retained in the ground, along with carbon just for holding capabilities.
People dont know that 35000years ago aborigines were making chain saws! Yes chain saws. The used these for firewood and leg amputation when required. Several parts of these saws , severed leg bones and charcoal with saw marks have been found in several sites in backyards in Melbourne , Sydney and Adelaide. Local urban aborigines reported these findings in the previous week within hours of each other! Indigenous researchers say that the findings confirm the traditional view that Aborigines invented tge internal combustion engine and were extracting oil on a massive scale. They also assert the natives must have had petrochemical works to produce the plastic handles on saws and that there was an impressive production of steel from iron ore with associated coal and coke production. Alloy of aluminium and zinc also seems likely say the indigenous correspondent! We await more iinformation on the latest anouncement that toothbrushes were in universal use throughtout aboriginal Australia 67k years ago.
Load of bullocks. Indigenous people used fire only to drive animals out to be hunted for food. Think about it....a culture with no established trade, written language, dwellings, farming, etc. Are we led to believe they were smart enough to use fire as a tool? No chance. It would not even surprise me that their misuse of fire contributed to the creation of the barren Outback where everthing was torched in runaway blazes.
I have discovered that used carpet makes great erosion prevention, if you can secure it with rock and cement, your golden. Carpet and cement are a wonderful medium to work with.
Thanks Steve, for Your work; Only beware Bro, of Govs that have banned the import of Bloodroot (Native North American medicine) into Australia. Why? We know why.
It wasn't just machine clearing trains ran on wood sandal wood cutting fence post cutting teams thined the land every we're good to see thinking about letting trees grow for better feed
@@RareGem369 it’s nothing compared to how much had been lost in time to colonialism though. The Muruwari mob utilises over 30 different native plants as medicine. I bet you can’t even name that many plants
Different area here but similar issue. My state has regulations. I cannot legally catch tilapia (invasive) from my local waterways. But I can purchase from a licensed seller with the state, or get a annual 200$ permit and import. I feel like the state could have been a little more rewarding for any small time aquaponics hobbyist. Tilapia breed like crazy I could have removed upto 60 adult females for my small setup. Which would have a huge impact in how the tilapia would have impacted the waterway in the coming decades. I feel like fish farmers probably are more aware than the average aquarium owner about releasing invasive species. It just seems like the only way to encourage the removal of tilapia is by rewarding those willing to, some people might only eat the adults, what about the fingerlings and fry perhaps a aquaculture or aquaponics hobbyist might be willing to if allowed Understandably I must have safe guards that prevent accidental release. Things like located outside of a flood plain, and prevention of birds carrying out tilapia. Even as detailed to doors that lock to prevent unauthorized access. I understand the importance of the safe guards to reduce accidental release.
I can't see success in your solutions. Encourage them to be caught and eaten. That way more people will target the species. They are endangered in Africa because of over fishing. I now live in South East Queensland and have caught them in almost every fresh water catchment. Do what the US did to manage the species and you will decrease the populations. Instead you make people scared to fish for them.
That's great working together but aboriginal fire management practices have sustained this country for thousands and thousands of years so the sooner that practice is shared, the better off country will be.
