As Australian industries grow increasingly concerned with conservation, scientists, government agencies, and companies are turning to Aboriginal Australians for their ancient knowledge of living on and with the land. Drawing on ancient traditions, Indigenous communities are providing innovative solutions in farming, healthcare, land management, and conservation. Read more about Australia’s Indigenous innovators in AG#132, out now.
It’s an unlikely marriage, but a spiky native Australian grass could give us stronger, thinner condoms.
An indigenous Australian tradition millennia-old, Welcome to Country’s mainstream popularity began to snowball 40 years ago.
Emerging from the world’s oldest living culture, contemporary Aboriginal art has taken to the global stage to tell tales of ancient landscapes and storylines. Read our full story on the history and future of Aboriginal art in AG #131, available now.
Aboriginal fire management should be part of the solution to destructive bushfires, argues David Bowman, a Professor of Environmental Change Biology at the University of Tasmania.
From ’emu’ to ‘cockatoo’, fewer Aussie animal names have their origins in Aboriginal languages than most of us realise – but the trend is shifting.
Indigenous Australian journalist Stan Grant has delivered a passionate speech on racism and the Australian dream that is being described as Australia’s “Martin Luther King moment”.
More than 100 sacred Aboriginal items have been temporarily returned to Australia, many for the first time in centuries.
The stolen remains of three Bardi Jawi people have been returned to their traditional lands in an emotional ceremony in Western Australia.
Our 2015 Young Conservationist of the Year, has created an environmental network that has given a voice to Aboriginal youth.