Warddeken Land Management

14/06/2026

🏆 Congratulations to Warddeken Land Management, winners of the People’s Choice Award in the Healthy Country, Healthy Waters, Healthy Communities Photo Competition with ‘Sky Rangers’ by Salvino Mamo.

Thank you to everyone who voted. This incredible image showcases the skill, leadership and dedication of Indigenous rangers. It highlights the importance of teamwork and the unique work Indigenous rangers do to protect Country. Congratulations to Salvino and the Warddeken team!

13/06/2026

Congratulations 🥳

⁨📷⁩🥉Congratulations to Warddeken Land Management, who took out Third Place in the Healthy Country, Healthy Waters, Healthy Communities Photo Competition with ‘Bonj (Finished)’ by Salvino Mamo.

Taken on Yurlhmanj Country, high up on the Arnhem plateau in the Northern Territory, this powerful image captures Indigenous rangers caring for Country and protecting its future. Well done to Salvino and the Warddeken team!⁩

11/06/2026

Congrats to the Mimal team on the official declaration of their Indigenous Protected Area 🔥🔥

11/06/2026

Leron Guymala is one of Warddekens lead Aerial Planned Burners.

Aerial planned burning within the Warddeken IPA happens during Yekke (cool time) so the fires are gentle and don't carry. Fires are lit on ground and from the helicopter. They burn the spear grass and obligate seeding plants.

Our fires lit from the helicopter create a mosaic of ecosystems and also fire breaks which help us fight the wildfires that occur during Kurrung (hot season) and Kunumeleng (pre-monsoon).

Ranger groups across Arnhem land undertake this burning every year and are pioneers in combining modern and traditional practices of fire managment in this country.

09/06/2026

Warddeken just published a new paper 📄 👏🏾
in Conservation Science and Practice using the Warddeken Mayh Program as a case study to explore how Indigenous governance can guide the use of AI and digital technologies in conservation.

The paper highlights the importance of putting Indigenous knowledge, decision-making and cultural protocols at the centre of technological change. As new tools emerge, it is important that we listen to our Elders first and ensure technology works for communities, not the other way around.

We are especially proud of our Warddeken Daluk Rangers who are co-authors on this work and helped shape the ideas, approaches and governance frameworks described in the paper.
We also acknowledge the lasting legacy of Elizabeth Nabarlambarl, whose vision helped guide the development of our bilingual database—one of the first Indigenous-led bilingual ecological monitoring databases in Australia.

The paper reflects many years of collaboration between Bininj knowledge holders, Rangers, Warddeken staff, and research partners, and shares lessons for others looking to develop ethical and community-led approaches to conservation technology.

Read the open-access paper here:
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.70331

09/06/2026

All TO's in the front seat! APB is up and running in Warddken 🚁🔥

26/05/2026

From the fire team:
Daluk lighting up the break at a small Manbinik site led by Senior Daluk Ranger Suzannah Nabulwad. Manbinik is the Bininj name for Allosyncarpa Ternata. These rare, quiet forest refuges are culturally significant and ecologically vulnerable to fire.

This year rangers worked hard to widen the breaks allowing the patches of forest to expand. Rangers have been working at protecting these isolated patches for many years with incredible results.

25/05/2026

It was a big wet 🌧️⛈️🌦️

25/05/2026

The fire season is in full swing at Warddeken 🔥

19/05/2026

Saying goodbye to the wet season and the last rains over the Warddeken IPA.

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