This document shows foundational activities and inputs, immediate activites, immediate outcomes, long term outcomes, and aspirational program goals for the fire aspect of the Regional Investment Plan 2014-2018.
This Regional Investment Strategy contains the priorities for investment for the five years 2013-2018 as identified through consultation with the peoples and communities of Cape York.
This report was the first major product of a consortium project of scientists from James Cook Univeristy and CSIRO and was funded by steam 2 of the Regional NRM Planning for Climate Change Fund.
This study was undertaken between July 1994 and Janurary 1995 as a project within the Land use Program of CYPLUS.
What is ICIP?
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) means all parts of Indigenous knowledge and culture that you want protected and recognised including:
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.