Indigenous rangers spread the word Born wild … rangers round up
feral camels, which can cause damage to sensitive areas and
valuable wetlands. Photo: Central Land Council BETWEEN this week
and next, Phillip McCarthy will swap 30-degree heat, bushfires
and dugongs for the spruce and pines of Canada's vast Boreal
forest in sub-zero temperatures. Mr McCarthy, a 25-year-old
Bardi Jawi indigenous ranger from the Kimberley, is one of the
pioneering delegation taking the knowledge of Australia's
Aboriginal land management to the world. The federal government
says the tour next week to meet first nations chiefs in Canada
will kick-start a global network of indigenous land and sea
managers. Mr McCarthy, who with eight other rangers looks after
a vast tract of land and coastline at Australia's western top
end, said he hoped to share their systems of fire and weed
management, feral animal eradication, biodiversity surveys,
dugong and turtle tracking, and education of the younger
generations. ''We try and educate our peo