Community forestry in Australia: Caring for Country, land, and the bush
Community forestry in Australia is expressed in two primary forms: by Australia’s First Nations peoples exercising their responsibilities in ‘caring for Country’, and through a Landcare movement dedicated to restoration of native vegetation, primarily but not exclusively on private land. A third for...
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/313205 2024-03-24T09:01:55+00:00 Community forestry in Australia: Caring for Country, land, and the bush Cruzado Melendez, Giselle Kanowski, Peter Bulkan, J Palmer, J Larson, A M Hobley, M application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1885/313205 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/313205/3/10.4324_9780367488710-10_chapterpdf.pdf.jpg en_AU eng Routledge Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry 1st Edition 9780367488710 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/313205 .4324/9780367488710 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/313205/3/10.4324_9780367488710-10_chapterpdf.pdf.jpg © 2022 The authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution licence Book chapter ftanucanberra 2024-02-27T08:30:24Z Community forestry in Australia is expressed in two primary forms: by Australia’s First Nations peoples exercising their responsibilities in ‘caring for Country’, and through a Landcare movement dedicated to restoration of native vegetation, primarily but not exclusively on private land. A third form, community management of public forests, is poorly developed, although new opportunities are emerging. The Indigenous land rights and Landcare movements emerged and developed from the 1960s to the1980s, and each has surged and ebbed in conjunction with political, social, and programmatic support. The ‘Indigenous Estate’, over which First Nations Australians have some combination of exclusive or non-exclusive possession, management or co-management rights, or other special rights, now comprises 57 per cent of Australia’s land area and 52 per cent of its forests. Some models of Indigenous management and co-management, particularly those for conservation and ecosystem services, are well established and successful in some respects. In principle, Landcare applies across the 58 per cent of Australia’s land area used by agricultural enterprises, and on some public lands; in practice, despite a large number of community-based groups, its impact has been largely localised, and the volunteer momentum essential to its success has been hard to sustain. Of Australia’s forests, 16 per cent are under public tenures on which community forestry could be practised, but community participation has seldom extended beyond consultation processes. We identify three critical issues and challenges to the further development of community forestry in Australia: the ‘unfinished business’ of reconciliation between First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians, institutional arrangements for forest management, and the conjunction of the legacy impacts of European settlement and the accelerating impacts of climate change; and suggest starting points to address these. Book Part First Nations Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections |
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Community forestry in Australia is expressed in two primary forms: by Australia’s First Nations peoples exercising their responsibilities in ‘caring for Country’, and through a Landcare movement dedicated to restoration of native vegetation, primarily but not exclusively on private land. A third form, community management of public forests, is poorly developed, although new opportunities are emerging. The Indigenous land rights and Landcare movements emerged and developed from the 1960s to the1980s, and each has surged and ebbed in conjunction with political, social, and programmatic support. The ‘Indigenous Estate’, over which First Nations Australians have some combination of exclusive or non-exclusive possession, management or co-management rights, or other special rights, now comprises 57 per cent of Australia’s land area and 52 per cent of its forests. Some models of Indigenous management and co-management, particularly those for conservation and ecosystem services, are well established and successful in some respects. In principle, Landcare applies across the 58 per cent of Australia’s land area used by agricultural enterprises, and on some public lands; in practice, despite a large number of community-based groups, its impact has been largely localised, and the volunteer momentum essential to its success has been hard to sustain. Of Australia’s forests, 16 per cent are under public tenures on which community forestry could be practised, but community participation has seldom extended beyond consultation processes. We identify three critical issues and challenges to the further development of community forestry in Australia: the ‘unfinished business’ of reconciliation between First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians, institutional arrangements for forest management, and the conjunction of the legacy impacts of European settlement and the accelerating impacts of climate change; and suggest starting points to address these. |
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