Wirnpa (Kalyuku Ninti 2023)

During the 2023 Kalyuku Ninti trip, 59 traditional owners from Martu and Kulyakartu native title determinations visited Wirnpa, one of the most powerful ancestral beings of the Jukurrpa (Dreaming). The purpose of the visit was to educate the younger generations about Wirnpa and the importance of respecting and caring for him and Country.

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Wanyja Mankarr

In one of the most remote parts of Australia live some rare and threatened animals. One such animal is the bilby. Once common across Australian deserts, the bilby is now endangered. Its last stronghold in the wild is on Martu country. Martu rangers are working with Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa to look after country and the bilby’s habitat by using a combination of Martu and whitefella ways.

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“Burning to save Australia's Western Desert” — Al Jazeera report

The Martu are the Indigenous peoples of a large area of Australia's Western Desert. The traditional owners of those lands, the Martu, practised small-scale "land burning" for tens of thousands of years. The burning encouraged a regrowth of diverse vegetation across the landscape that would then make large-scale bushfires less likely to occur.

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Warru (Black-flanked rock wallaby) Project

In a remote part of Western Australia lives an endangered species of rock wallaby. Although known to the local Martu people, this population of endangered species was one of the last known populations in the Western Desert. Constantly hunted by feral predators, particularly wild cats and foxes, the rock wallabies were in danger of disappearing all together. This documentary shows rangers at work establishing a new colony of rock wallabies to help secure their survival for the future.

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