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Earth Matters
Program 113b
Juliet Fox
3CR Community Radio
03 9419 8377
ComRadSat Program 17/11/2000
INTRO : "Hello and welcome to =85"
OUTRO : "... see you then."
DURATION : 27'10" (frogs til 28'15")
Indigenous involvement in Tropical Rainforest Management and Research
>From November 16th to 17th the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical
Rainforest Ecology and management held its annual conference in Cairns,
Queensland. Today on Earth Matters we hear about the incorporation of
indigenous knowledge and rights in to the management and research of
Australia's tropical rainforests. Firstly we hear from Claude Beeron, elder
from the southern wet tropics area and member of the Girringun elders and
reference group based in Cardwell. Tropical rainforests are not a place
most Australians associate with indigenous presence, knowledge and rights,
but as we hear from Claude the historical and ongoing connection between
indigenous communities and tropical rainforests in Queensland is very real.
IN: "I was born "
OUT: " Cassowary as well."
DUR: 5'30"
We also speak with Dermot Smyth, an honorary research fellow at the james
Cook University and current worker with the Rainforest Cooperative Research
Centre (CRC) on indigenous involvement in research. Dermot gives us a
history of indigenous involvement in tropical rainforest management and
research, and an overview of the the current state of Australia's tropical
rainforests.
IN: " Dermot would you"
OUT: "sort of shift."
DUR: 5'33
There are currently projects involving botht he indigenous and scientific
communities on tropical rainforest protection. Chris Kennedy, Cultural
Heritage officer for Girringun in Cardwell, Queensland, gives us some
specific examples.
IN: "So Chris there are"
OUT: "traditional owners of that area."
DUR: 6'05"
Finally on Earth Matters today we speak with Judy Atkinson, Aboriginal
Research facilitator with the Rainforest CRC on how she sees the current
conference incorporating indigenous concerns and the further steps that
need to be taken.
IN: "Judy how do you feel"
OUT: "have to be involved in.
DUR: 5'01"
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