Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples have consistently articulated their desire for a stronger role in managing the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, in recognition of their enduring and underlying cultural rights, obligations, values, knowledge and aspirations. Envigorate Consulting and Cath Moran Ecological were engaged to provide strategic advisory support to a Traditional Owner Leadership Group (TOLG) established to progress […]
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Gidarjil Development Corporation Sea Country Business Strategy 2019-2025
Envigorate Consulting collaborated with TerraFormDesign to develop a Sea Country Business Strategy for Gidarjil Development Corporation with funding from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. The six-year Sea Country Business Strategy outlines the values, management directions, intended outcomes, governance arrangements, planning processes, adaptive management mechanisms and priority actions to strengthen the role and capacity […]
Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation Strategic Plan 2020-2030
Envigorate Consulting and TerraFormDesign were engaged to develop a strategic plan on behalf of Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation. Butchulla (Badtjala) People are the Traditional Owners of K’gari (Fraser Island) in South East Queensland, Australia. K’gari is a globally significant biocultural land and seascape and means ‘paradise’ in Butchulla language. Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) became the Registered […]
Sharing and Preserving Knowledge Through Story
Envigorate Consulting partnered with Tom Hearn and Ernie Dingo of BushTV to develop the draft script outline for a documentary series on behalf of the Indigenous Reference Group (IRG) to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC). The purpose of the documentaries is to help the IRG communicate to a wider audience the significance of Indigenous fishing, […]
Crowdfunding for conservation: positive people power in the age of the internet
This year, my family and I have decided to dive in for a worthy cause and will be participating in the Swim for the Reef event, by swimming across Lake Eacham and back. Thanks to the generosity of many friends, family members and colleagues, we have helped to raise much needed funding for the Environmental Defenders’ […]
Reversing climate change: 100 practical solutions we can implement now
If global warming is ‘feedback’, it is vitally important that human society respond to it if we are to create a pathway to a more sustainable way of relating to our planet. Paul Hawken, environmentalist and author, aims to bridge the gap between urgency and agency, showing how we can use the power we have to […]
Climate Change in the Wet Tropics
The Wet Tropics Management Authority (WTMA) engaged Envigorate Consulting and John Rainbird to design and facilitate a workshop on climate change adaptation in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. The workshop involved WTMA’s Board and staff, Rainforest Aboriginal people, scientists and land managers, with the aim of improving our collective understanding of projected climate change impacts […]
Indigenous Land Management Opportunities & Constraints
Miya was successful in securing a grant to undertake an applied research project with Girringun Aboriginal Corporation to explore different avenues, opportunities and constraints for Indigenous land and sea managers to fulfil their aspirations to look after country sustainably. Miya considered the various statutory and non-statutory mechanisms for securing Indigenous rights and interests over land and […]