A 185 million-year-old rainforest called Daintree in Queensland, northern Australia, is handed over back to Indigenous people who have lived there for centuries
“It is the first time Queensland has transferred the ownership of a national park in the Wet Tropics region of the state's northeast to an Indigenous group,”“It’s a big thing for Eastern Kuku Yalanji people, for us bama, which means people,” Chrissy Grant, a traditional owner and the incoming chair of the Wet Tropics Management Authority board, tells the“Bama across the wet tropics have consistently lived within the rainforest.
“It’s an opportunity to work our way up ... we will be looking at long-term gains out of this, but we need to work our way up to get our people trained up confident.” Grant is also the chair of the Unesco International Indigenous People’s Forum for World Heritage, and she says the handback of the Daintree and surrounds would also help address a historical oversight – rainforest Aboriginal people were not involved in the 1988 process for the world heritage listing of Queensland’s wet tropics, according to thespeaks of “exceptional natural beauty, with superlative scenic features highlighted by extensive sweeping forest vistas, wild rivers, waterfalls, rugged...
“In 1988 there was no consultation with Aboriginal people and no recognition of the values of the ... oldest rainforest in the world, being continuously occupied by Aboriginal people,” Grant tells the“People were probably not upset about it back at that time, but certainly after that time people realised they were completely ignored, even what was world heritage, not a lot of awareness out there.
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