Nari Nari Tribal Council

An IPA Project - Toogimbie
Toogimbie History
Toogimbie River Port
Walking Trail

TOOGIMBIE

IPA funded activities include improving wetland inundation, replanting vegetation, and controlling weeds and feral animals like foxes, rabbits and pigs. Areas that have been fenced to keep stock and feral animals out are showing improvements in the level of cover and in environmental health. The Tribal Council aims to continue timber harvesting using sustainable methods, for community use. The location and details of important cultural sites are also being recorded. These sites are being protected by removing stock from the area, controlling visitor access and revegetating the sites to repair the feral animal damage.

Overall revegetation works are another major IPA activity. In 2005 alone, 2.5 kilograms of local seed was collected, 8,500 seedlings were planted, 8,000 clay seed balls distributed and 4,000 plants propagated. The Tribal Council has also erected bird hides in the wetlands, and constructed a bush tucker garden to improve community access to native foods and medicinal plants.

Toogimbie IPA is managed in line with World Conservation Union Category IV - Habitat/Species Management Area: Protected Area managed mainly for conservation through management intervention. Indigenous Protected Areas make a significant contribution to Australian biodiversity conservation - making over 23 per cent of Australia's National Reserve System.

...leaders in Cultural Heritage Protection and Natural Resource Management

Below: Front Gate signage at Toogimbie & Chairman Ian Woods with Parliamentary Secretary Sharman Stone, at the official declaration of Toogimbie as an Indigenous Protected Area in March 2004.