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Nganamara Monitoring Project |
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Nganamara (malleefowl) are found in mulga and mallee country in the Watarru and Walalkara Indigenous Protected Areas. In contrast to malleefowl habitat elsewhere in Australia, Nganamara in the arid zone are sparse and have a very scattered distribution. Their habitat is also very remote meaning that monitoring methodologies are substantially different to more temperate regions. Therefore, APY Land Management and the Watarru and Walalkara Indigenous Protected Areas are working with the Malleefowl Recovery Team and consultant Joe Benshemesh to develop a coordinated approach to monitoring in the arid zone. In September, a Nganamara Workshop was held by Joe Benshemesh in Watarru. It was attended by Anangu from across the APY lands and from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands.
APY Land Management has been working to develop a ‘Cybertracker’ program which will assist Anangu to collect and record the same information on Nganamara. This will be developed further in 2009/2010 with the assistance of Joe Benshemesh.
 Nganamara Fact Sheet (773.97 kB)
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