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24.01.2022 What a year it has been for rangers and IPAs! Read more about our achievements in 2018 here: https://www.countryneedspeople.org.au/what_we_achieved_in_2

23.01.2022 Rangers from Dhipirri, Mirrngatja, and Donydji along with Ramingining staff recently learnt how operate, service and repair small engines and equipment. The Train Safe NT course, which was run by Ian van Munster, was funded by NIAA.

23.01.2022 Are you a well-organised person with a positive outlook, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and a great eye for detail? ASRAC needs a part-time Administration Officer in Ramingining to support staff and rangers undertaking land management activities across Gurruwiling (the Arafura Swamp). Given housing is not available with this position, it would ideally suit someone already living in Ramingining. Working hours are flexible total 15 hrs/wk. If you’re interested in joining our team, please contact Helen Truscott [Email hidden] for a Position Description and details about how to apply.

23.01.2022 Mission grass education and control around homes in Ramingining

22.01.2022 Fighting late season wildfires

19.01.2022 Green plum (Buchanania obovata) is ready to eat before the wet season starts. It has many names - it’s called Manybung in Ganalbingu, Djinba, and Mandjalpingu; Munytjut in Djambarrpuyngu and Gupapuyngu; and Birriki in Rembarrnga. The ripe soft fruit falls to the ground where it is collected for eating. In December, Ranger Rexy Djarrkadama was helping the harvest along by kicking fruit-laden trees! Cockatoos also like to eat the fruit.

19.01.2022 This afternoon at 3.10pm #NorthernTerritory time, you can tune in on radio and online to ABC Darwin to hear afternoons presenter Liz Trevaskis' interview with our women rangers. They'll be chatting about the work they do across land, sea and freshwater country and their current project searching for the native water mouse. The rangers are in #Darwin for the Territory NRM conference, so they were able to go into the ABC studios and talk to Liz face to face. Thanks Liz and #ABC for such a fun experience. #rangers #indigenousrangers #womenrangers #ASRAC #country #culture #land #sea #freshwater #fire #landmanagement #naturalresourcemanagement #biodiversity #caringforcountry #species #plants #animals #nature #ramingining #arafuraswamp

19.01.2022 We have been doing training in digital literacy with the ARDS IndigiMob project for short films and sound recording. Check out the short video below! https://www.indigitube.com.au/video/5c5156e8791c9406e65d5d0e

19.01.2022 NEW DOG DISEASE ALERT! Is your dog unwell? Does it have a fever, is tired, not eating well and is skinny, have cloudy blue eyes, runny, mucky eyes and nose, or ...is bleeding from the nose, eyes or gums? If so, they may have a new disease called ehrlichiosis (say AIR-LIK-EE-O-SIS), which is spread by Brown Dog Ticks. Ehrlichiosis has been found in Bulman and Gove and may now be in Ramingining. Dogs can die from this disease and rangers have had reports of four healthy dogs that have died suddenly without any injuries. They could have been infected with ehrlichiosis. What should you do? If your dog has symptoms - particularly bleeding from the nose, eyes or gums - or dies suddenly, please let rangers know. Check your dogs every day for ticks. Give your dog regular tick treatment. Don’t take your sick dog to other communities Can people get sick? Sick dogs do not transmit this disease to people. In rare cases, ticks may infect people. If you get sick after being bitten by a tick, go to the medical clinic. Please let rangers know as soon as possible if your dog has symptoms or dies suddenly!

16.01.2022 The fellas installing a new fence to protect one of our Sacred Sites #keepingculturestrong #Indigenouslandmanagement #Peopleoncountry #rangers

15.01.2022 Spot the crocs! Each year, Asrac rangers do crocodile surveys to monitor population numbers. We go spotlighting at night with 5 people on the boat - A captian, spotlighter, gps operator, a data recorder and someone watching out for safety. The freshwater crocodile is Dhüwa and saltwater crocodile is Yirritja.

14.01.2022 ICYMI: The Arafura Swamp Rangers Aboriginal Corporation has been awarded more than half a million dollars to expand its crocodile farm in Ramingining. Rangers have been collecting and incubating crocodiles eggs to sell to the Darwin Crocodile Farm for many years, but increased demand has sparked plans for the enterprise to grow and raise reptiles in the community.... Read the full article here: http://asrac.org.au/news/crocodile-farm-funding

13.01.2022 Have you seen it? The women rangers are looking for a rare native mouse that can swim. It has only been sighted a handful of times in the Northern Territory, but the research project hopes to change the record. ... Read more about it: http://asrac.org.au/news/research-watermouse

13.01.2022 You are looking at the next generation of Asrac skippers! 10 Wanga Djamamirr and Dhipirri sea rangers are undertaking Coxwains training for sea patrolling.

12.01.2022 A new paradigm for Monitoring and Evaluation? The #savannafireforum is investigating the carbon farming potential for early dry season burning and the multiple ...benefits it delivers for country and its people. Otto Campion from Arafura Swamp Rangers inspires the attendees with his talk on the Bininj perspective on M&E. See more

10.01.2022 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 they accelerate saltwater intrusion into freshwater areas and damage lowland rainforests, many of which have high cultural, as well as conservation significance.

10.01.2022 Florence and Mali pulling out weeds at Djapititjapin, keeping our waterholes healthy. A nice place to work on a cooking hot day!

09.01.2022 Learning on Country - Ramingining school students chipping in with weed management, pulling out hyptis and mossman river grass around the school. Good job fellas!

09.01.2022 Well done to the fellas for responding very quickly to a number of late season wildfires late last week caused by a lightening storm last week. Mother nature was on our side and the rain mostly put the fires out overnight, which meant we just needed to mop up the fires. While monitoring the fires in the helicopter, we noticed someone had lit a new fire on the Central Arnhem Hwy and we were able to put it out while the fire was small. Big thanks to the Mimal Rangers for lending a hand and for having us a Barrapunta.

08.01.2022 This Dipina (caterpillar) was brought to the ranger base by an Elder for identification. It's a larvae for a Tailed emperor butterfly, Polyura sempronius. These caterpillars munch on Acacia and Kurrajong trees. What's in your backyard?

08.01.2022 Learning on country - This week the men rangers and students made Yïdaki, didgeridoo together. The ladies dug for Djämindarra, water lilly roots, and cooked them the traditional way. Old lady Djäkurrurr spoke of the importance of eating bushtucker because it's healthy and it's free!!

07.01.2022 Otto Campion of Arafura Swamp Rangers talks about evaluating Bininj aspirations for fire management at the #savannafireforum

07.01.2022 Artists Bobby Bunungur, JB Fisher and Ranger Nev making traditional bark canvases with school students

06.01.2022 It's been a busy bushfire season! Rangers, Traditional Owners, families and even school students worked together for Right-Way Fire. This is the Arafura Swamp Rangers sharing their story at the ALFA end of season bushfire meeting at Munbililla.

06.01.2022 Great news for Gurruwiling (the Arafura Swamp)!! ASRAC has received funding from the NT Aboriginal Ranger Grants Program to control Mimosa pigra. Gurruwiling is a Wetland of National Importance and the largest paperbark swamp in Australia. It is under threat from Mimosa, which forms dense, thorny, impenetrable thickets, devastating wetlands and threatening livelihoods and culture. Rangers have moved quickly, treating all known infestations in the swamp before wet season rains makes country impassable.

03.01.2022 Happy Womens' day bukmuk from the Arafura Swamp Ranger Miyalk Mala! The women rangers are prescribed burners, weed managers, educators, quadbike drivers, truck drivers, botanists and horticulturalists, film makers, report writers, boat captains, first aid officers, radio superstars and important role models for young women. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who has supported us over the last year! #IWD2019 #internationalwomensday #Womenrangers

03.01.2022 -Always stay 5 metres back from the water edge -Never leave your fish guts at the water edge Our croc expert rangers helped National Parks and Wildlife deliver the CrocWise safety message at the Ramingining School

02.01.2022 Maritime safety is serious stuff!! We practiced drills for man overboard, abandon ship, fire and letting off flares. We practice these safety drills regularly as part of our work plan, in case of emergency.