PHOTO: Shell middens at sunset, Worimi Conservation Lands taken by project team leader, Mal Ridges.
A joint project between the Narran Lakes Joint Management Committee and the Worimi Lands Conservation Board aims to maintain healthy cultures in a changing climate.
Research has delved into how cultural knowledge, practice and archaeological evidence show us that Aboriginal people have lived through climate change before – and suggests listening to their voices can help us to understand how to live through climate change again.
“We have learnt that climate change is a mirror – and that Country holds up that mirror. If we accept that we are its reflection, the cause of climate change, then we can change. There is always cause for hope. That’s the wisdom of Aboriginal culture,” Mal Ridges, Team Leader Cultural Science, NSW Government said…