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K’gari Fire Gym – Lay-Flat Fun
The K’gari Fire Enhancement Team are prepping for the bushfire season with regular equipment maintenance and training days. ‘Fire-Gym’ is an initiative of the team 2IC, Rachel Killer to ensure the fire team and other fire-trained personnel keep their skills honed for bushfire season in a safe and fun environment.
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Consensus Building in K’gari Fire Management – Final Report
Following the wildfire that affected over 50% of K’gari in October-December 2020, the IGEM Review 2020-21 identified that risk exposure mapping at the time was primarily related to people and structures, rather than significant environmental areas on this World Heritage-listed Island.
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Black-breasted button-quail project comes to a close
When the BAC’s Conserving Mur’rindum (Black-breasted button-quail) on Butchulla Country project was approved in September 2020, the Du’ling Bushfire that burnt over 85,000 Ha (50%) of the island, hadn’t even started.
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Pandanus Restoration Project Update
The Pandanus Restoration Program is a joint initiative between FIDO and the Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) supported by the Department of Environment and Science.
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Black Summer Bushfire Project Update
Activities have ramped up on the K’gari Bushfires – Butchulla Fire Management and Heritage Conservation Project (funded through the Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants).
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K’gari’s iconic Pandanus under threat, but help has arrived!
The plant Pandanus is often called a Pandanus palm, but it is not a true palm.
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K’gari Collaborative Planned Burning Season 2023
The K’gari collaborative fire program is well underway with twenty-three QPWS planned burns approved for this season. These include small-block asset protection burns, mitigation burns, larger land management (conservation) burns and several Butchulla cultural burns to return traditional burning practices to areas of K’gari.
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Collaborative Fire Workshop at Dilli Village
A three-day fire workshop was held in April by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) and the Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) at Dilli Village. The workshop included field visits to several post-burn and unburnt sites with representatives from a cross-section of K’gari stakeholders including the BAC, UniSC, QPWS, QFES, FIDO, FINIA and K’gari residents.
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FINIA Field Trip 2023
May 4th and 5th were the dates of this year’s FINIA annual tour of K’gari. Each year FINIA aims to have one two-day meeting on K’gari. FINIA is a community-based partnership dedicated to the protection of the K’gari World Heritage Area’s natural integrity and ecological assets to help ensure that all stakeholders are successfully cooperating in caring for K’gari.
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Beyond the Black Summer Bushfire
In April 2022, the BAC commenced an exciting new project to reinstate Butchulla cultural burns on K’gari. Partnering with the Everick Foundation and supported by a 2-year Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grant from the Australian Government, the project takes a staged approach to building BAC and partner capacity to support cultural burns on K’gari.
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