Cape York Annual Fire statistics by month for 2014. Mapping is provided by CYSF to inform that mapping presented on the Northern Australia Fire Information site.
This map shows the frequency of burns in the Cape York region from 2000 to 2015 ranging from never burned to burned every year. Data is sourced from the Northern Australia Fire Information site.
What is ICIP?
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) means all parts of Indigenous knowledge and culture that you want protected and recognised including:
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This project involves the establishment of a North Queensland Indigenous Fire Management Network, and the implementation of an Indigenous Fire Mentorship Program for its members.
The program will identify solutions to reduce threats affecting the future of the southern cassowary on Cape York, operating across all land tenures, and will include:
the establishment of an Indigenous Fire Mentoring Program to support Indigenous people in cultural fire management
This program will help us find out more about the distribution and habitat of Cape York’s cassowaries, ant plants and littoral rainforests and coastal vine thicket country. The majority of mapped priority areas for all three species are on Aboriginal lands and we will work with Traditional Owners and other experts
The rainforest around Lockhart is special. People come from all over the world to see our glow in the dark snakes and Kutini. In all Australia there is nowhere else like it.
The goal of this four-year program is to work with participating grazing land managers to develop and implement practical action plans that improve soil stability, native vegetation, and water quality in the Joint Management Area (JMA) of the Mitchell River catchment.