Rachel Paltridge is bent over the innards of a feral cat under the midday sun of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. Pintubi traditional owners who caught the cat have kept its stomach in the freezer so Ms Paltridge can study what it has been eating. It is an unlikely example of threatened species research, but this is the practical work of a new partnership between the Federal Government and Aboriginal land owners. Pintubi traditional owners, whose numbers include the last Aboriginal people to make contact with white Australians in 1984, have just signed their homelands into history.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:22:17 +0000
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