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Marine Conservation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland, Australia

In 1988, the Institute developed a project to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland, Australia in marine conservation. 

To support and manage the increasing scope of the Institute’s work  in Australia, in 1990, with support from MacArthur Foundation, Cultural Survival, AusAID, and other Australian agencies, Dr. Cordell  established  the Community Resource Management Center, at University of Queensland.

 

 

The Community Resource Management Center’s activities consisted of:

 

  • a program of small grants to communities, technical assistance and training in conservation planning and resource mapping
  • field research and inputs into a range of significant indigenous protected area, land and marine management initiatives in N. Australia and Melanesia, including the first coastal zone management plan for Papua New Guinea 
  • helping develop components of the Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy(CYPLUS)
  • the Torres Strait Marine Strategy (MASTS
  • the Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) Program.

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