Panorama
 
 
 
   
 
 

HISTORIC GATHERING OF ABORIGINAL TRADITIONAL OWNERS IN AUSTRALIAN ALPS

Environmental Panorama
Canberra – Australia
March of 2005

 

24/03/2005 - What was once an annual gathering of Aboriginal people in the Australian Alps which must have occurred for thousands of years will be repeated next week for the first time in many a year in what is being hailed as a significant and historic meeting.
It is believed that for many thousands of years people of the different Aboriginal language groups which surrounded the Australian Alps of southeastern Australian would gather each year at certain meeting places to discuss issues of mutual importance, share stories, food and companionship.

It is a practice that has not occurred for many decades but will again at Dinner Plain in the Victorian Alps next week (April 1-3). It is being called the Australian Alps First Peoples Gathering where it is expected more than 100 traditional owners representing country from around the Alps will gather to meet and talk for two days.

The gathering is being sponsored by the Australian Alps Liaison Committee (AALC), a body incorporating government agecnies with a major role in managing significant parts of the Australian Alps national parks; the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), Parks Victoria, and Environment ACT.
Along with 100 Aboriginal traditional owners will be at least 50 conservation agency staff who will together spend the weekend discussing the future management of Aboriginal heritage across the Australian Alps.

Australian Alps program manager, Gillian Anderson, said today that the gathering will be an historic moment.

"We know this event in many ways repeats a practice which must have occurred thousands of times over the millennia before the arrival of Europeans.

"It is something that has not happened for a long time now and I know the traditional Aboriginal owners of this country are looking forward to this event. It is an important recognition of their historic attachment to this country and for many I expect it will be an emotional experience to gather and talk as their forebears had done.

"The primary purpose of this gathering is to bring together Traditional Owners of Country within the Alps to rebiuld relationships, share information, and experiences and discuss future involvement in the management of the Australian Alps National Parks.

"It will also provide a forum for traditional owners and national park staff from Victoria, ACT and NSW to meet, establish ongoing connections and discuss park management face to face," Ms Anderson said.

The weekend will begin with a welcome to country followed by informal discussion and workshops in a spectacular alpine setting. Later there will be Aboriginal dancing at the High Plains Lodge to which the wider community are invited to attend.

 
 

Source: Australian - Department of the Environment and Heritage (http://www.environment.gov.au)
(http://www.deh.gov.au)
Australian Alps National Park (http://www.australianalps.deh.gov.au)
Australian Antarctic Division (http://www.aad.gov.au)
(Gill Anderson)
Press consultantship
All rights reserved

 
 
 
 

 

Universo Ambiental  
 
 
 
 
     
SEJA UM PATROCINADOR
CORPORATIVO
A Agência Ambiental Pick-upau busca parcerias corporativas para ampliar sua rede de atuação e intensificar suas propostas de desenvolvimento sustentável e atividades que promovam a conservação e a preservação dos recursos naturais do planeta.

 
 
 
 
Doe Agora
Destaques
Biblioteca
     
Doar para a Agência Ambiental Pick-upau é uma forma de somar esforços para viabilizar esses projetos de conservação da natureza. A Agência Ambiental Pick-upau é uma organização sem fins lucrativos, que depende de contribuições de pessoas físicas e jurídicas.
Conheça um pouco mais sobre a história da Agência Ambiental Pick-upau por meio da cronologia de matérias e artigos.
O Projeto Outono tem como objetivo promover a educação, a manutenção e a preservação ambiental através da leitura e do conhecimento. Conheça a Biblioteca da Agência Ambiental Pick-upau e saiba como doar.
             
       
 
 
 
 
     
TORNE-SE UM VOLUNTÁRIO
DOE SEU TEMPO
Para doar algumas horas em prol da preservação da natureza, você não precisa, necessariamente, ser um especialista, basta ser solidário e desejar colaborar com a Agência Ambiental Pick-upau e suas atividades.

 
 
 
 
Compromissos
Fale Conosco
Pesquise
     
Conheça o Programa de Compliance e a Governança Institucional da Agência Ambiental Pick-upau sobre políticas de combate à corrupção, igualdade de gênero e racial, direito das mulheres e combate ao assédio no trabalho.
Entre em contato com a Agência Ambiental Pick-upau. Tire suas dúvidas e saiba como você pode apoiar nosso trabalho.
O Portal Pick-upau disponibiliza um banco de informações ambientais com mais de 35 mil páginas de conteúdo online gratuito.
             
       
 
 
 
 
 
Ajude a Organização na conservação ambiental.