Indigenous rangers in the Northern Territory (NT) spent days battling catastrophic fires in the Top End to prevent the fires from spreading to the environmentally sensitive Fish River Station.
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The handing back of an 88,000-hectare property in southern New South Wales to its Traditional Custodians will ensure the protection of ecologically vital wetlands and significant Aboriginal heritage sites.
Since 2007, the ILSC has received funding from the Federal Budget to manage the Real Jobs Program in the Northern Territory. This provides work-based training and employment for unemployed Indigenous people, to build their capacity and assist their transition into jobs in the land management, tourism and agribusiness sectors.
ILSC land acquisition and land management assistance combined with Queensland
Government funding has seen Indigenous people growing the value and productivity of their
traditional country, and preserving and strengthening culture through reconnection to country.
The ILSC delivers the $34 million SFM Program on behalf of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s voluntary commitments with the Northern Territory Government to offset carbon emissions from the project’s onshore facility.
The ILSC funded the establishment of a property management plan for Mount Tabor and major upgrades to water infrastructure, stockyards, buildings and fencing.
