Aboriginal Cultural Heritage

The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage programmes provides funding to Indigenous communities to rehabilitate community owned land with a focus on training and natural resource management aspirations of the community.

Projects have involved elements of all the other programmes - community, land use planning, biodiversity, water, coastal management, marine and soils/land resource. Examples of this are:

• the removal of a gazetted noxious weed Cats Claw
• the rehabilitation of coastal dunes from the threat of Bitou bush, and
• riparian weeds removal.

Our Aboriginal Cultural Heritage programme is generally not time constrained. It's an open and flexible funding opportunity for Aboriginal communities to become involved in natural resource management projects and ensures the projects reflect the needs of the community.

What we have achieved so far?

• Funding from the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage programme has provided training opportunities in natural resource management with recognised training providers, such as Booroongen College.
• The programmes has partnered 8 traineeships with two Councils for Indigenous Bush Regeneration Teams and has encouraged smaller projects that have included a bush tucker garden in an Indigenous child care centre and improvements to an Indigenous language centre.