News & Resources

Over the past two and a half years ASRAC has been working on a country-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system to help track progress against the Healthy Country Plan.

This week Ian Brown (ASRAC CEO), Yaakov Bar-lev (Ranger Manager), Neville Gulaygulay (Ranger and ASRAC Director) and Mali Djarrbal (Ranger and ASRAC Director) participated in a Country Needs People (CNP) meeting of the five Yolŋu land and sea management groups of north-east Arnhem Land.

Otto Campion editing the video which formed part of his presentation on “Landscape, fire and people” at the 2021 North Australia Savanna Fire Forum this week in Darwin.

Green plum (Buchanania obovata) is ready to eat before the wet season starts.

Rangers from Dhipirri, Mirrngatja, and Donydji along with Ramingining staff recently learnt how operate, service and repair small engines and equipment.

It’s been a big feral buffalo week for Learning on Country Program students at Ramingining School. Buffalo in Gurruwiling (the Arafura Swamp) provide an economic opportunity but damage the environment

ASRAC has received funding from the NT Aboriginal Ranger Grants Program to control Mimosa pigra.

The Arafura Swamp in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory is one of seven new proposed Indigenous Protected Areas announced by the Australian Government in October 2019.

Djïḻpin is my country. It is my country because it belonged to my father and my grandfather.

In May 2019, ASRAC rangers attended the 7th National Fire Management Conference in Botswana, hosted by the International Savanna Fire Management Initiative (ISFMI).

Mimosa (Mimosa pigra) and Olive Hymenachme (Hymenachne amplexicaulis) are the most serious environmental weeds found in the Arafura Swamp region.

ASRAC is working on improved career pathway programs for rangers.

The water mouse, or false water rat, has been so rarely sighted, Territory authorities struggle to classify it as either vulnerable or threatened.

The Arafura Swamp Rangers Aboriginal Corporation has been awarded more than half a million dollars to expand its crocodile hatchery in Ramingining.

Arafura Swamp Rangers are preparing to join a new education program aimed at improving student numeracy and literacy through real world training.

Aboriginal traditional owners in the Arafura Swamp region are preparing to open a crocodile hatchery in Ramingining.

The Arafura Swamp Rangers Aboriginal Corporation has moved a step closer to independence and direct control of its land management area, after taking over the working on country contract.

The Arafura Swamp is considered unique in its size and range of relatively intact wetlands in the Northern Territory, with the paperbark forests kept well-watered through the dry season by springs along the Goyder River.

Australia’s largest wooded swampland is just part of a 12,000 square kilometre block of land in the Northern Territory that will be managed for the next decade by more than 20 Aboriginal clans under a new management plan.

Not long after dawn has broken over Murwangi, a patient crocodile hides in the shade near a plump of unsuspecting ducks, and the barramundi seem eager to bite every time Peter Djigirr and Marley Djangirr toss their lures into the billabong.

A group of Indigenous rangers are working to save the Arafura swamp after years of neglect and damage by feral animals.