The Djelk Ranger Program: an outsider’s perspective

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dc.contributor.authorCochrane, Men_AU
dc.contributor.otherAustralian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Researchen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2005-08-24en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-03-27T02:11:17Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-05T08:31:27Z
dc.date.available2006-03-27T02:11:17Zen_US
dc.date.available2011-01-05T08:31:27Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThis report is the result of a ten-day general conceptualisation research trip in May 2003 into an Indigenous community to study the Djelk Ranger program operating under the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (BAC). During this visit I spent time with several different groups of Rangers and visited several sustainable wildlife harvesting sites which are described here. The Djelk Ranger program established by the BAC is built on the extensive knowledge and skills that already exist within this Indigenous community. The success of the ventures mentioned in this report is built on a unique blend of formal legal institutional mechanisms and customary law and socio-cultural conventions. Cooperative community-based wildlife resource management and aquaculture has the potential to deliver sustainable and cost effective development benefits for Indigenous landowners. Greater recognition of the valuable land management and biodiversity conservation roles undertaken by Indigenous people in these circumstances would seem appropriate, and it would be desirable for these roles to be reflected in more formal and sustained income arrangements than the current CDEP project funding. The opportunities for economic development in Indigenous communities, and some of the challenges that these communities face are demonstrated in the Djelk Ranger program initiative. The BAC is an impressive institution for its commitment to learning, communication, cultural integration, and economic development. There is clearly a need for such adaptive and flexible institutions to provide a bridge between cultures and protect the interests of remote Indigenous communities.en_AU
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dc.identifier.isbn0-7315-4926-0
dc.identifier.issn1442-3871
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/43112
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenancePermission to deposit in Open Research received from CAEPR (ERMS2230079)en_AU
dc.publisherCanberra, ACT : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), The Australian National University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paper (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), The Australian National University); No. 27/2005
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyrighten_AU
dc.subjectDjelk Ranger programen_AU
dc.subjecteconomic developmenten_AU
dc.subjectwildlife harvesting sitesen_AU
dc.subjectindigenous communitiesen_AU
dc.subjectBACen_AU
dc.subjectBawinanga Aboriginal Corporationen_AU
dc.subjectresource managementen_AU
dc.titleThe Djelk Ranger Program: an outsider’s perspectiveen_AU
dc.typeWorking/Technical Paperen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCAEPRen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.description.refereednoen_AU
local.identifier.absfor169902 - Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Societyen_AU
local.identifier.citationyear2005en_AU
local.identifier.eprintid3178en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu1027010en_AU
local.rights.ispublishedyesen_AU
local.type.statusPublished versionen_AU

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