A team of Indigenous rangers are working with scientists to understand just how much wildlife still exists at Gamay, also known as Sydney's Botany Bay.
Standing on the sandstone bluffs at the mouth of Sydney's Botany Bay , saltwater man and senior Gamay ranger Robert Cooley gazes out at the Pacific Ocean.
In April 1770, Captain Cook led a landing party to shore in longboats where they were met by local Dharawal people, who threw spears.Our understanding of the events that unfolded on the afternoon of April 29, 1770 come mostly from the journals of Captain Cook and his crew — these Indigenous leaders believe something else.
These days, the Gamay and its surrounds make up one of the most built up and industrialised parts of the country.There's also a huge container port, which is visited by 1,600 ships every year and deals with more than 2.5 million containers."I could prawn along Foreshore Drive Beach. I used to dive for blue swimmer crabs before this was built," he says.
To answer some of those questions, the Gamay rangers are now working with scientists from Macquarie University. From geneticists gathering material without permission, to anthropologists taking and misappropriating stories and lore, the history of Aboriginal and scientific relations is a difficult one."A lot of our communities find scientists intrusive and abrupt in wanting to study our culture."
"You've got knowledge through storytelling that has been passed through to them from generation to generation."
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