Indigenous Land and Sea Rangers
Through the Queensland Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger program, the Queensland Government partners with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to care for biodiversity values and cultural heritage on country.
In 2020, the Queensland Government funded over 100 Indigenous land and sea rangers, employed through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander host organisations across 24 communities.
Land and sea ranger activities include a variety of caring for country actions, with priorities determined in consultation with traditional owners and partner agencies. Activities include: weed and feral animal management; fire management; biodiversity surveys; cultural heritage site management and community engagement in conservation efforts through Junior Ranger and other local programs.
In 2019, Indigenous land and sea rangers:
- carried out fire management over more than 762,000ha of land
- completed more than 700 biodiversity surveys (including protected species)
- removed more than 4,500kg marine debris from Queensland foreshores
- removed more than 3,200 feral animals (predominantly pigs)
- actively managed more than 960 cultural sites
- treated more than 530,000ha of land for weeds
- engaged nearly 3,200 school-aged children in junior ranger activities.
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