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Land management on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands
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Author
Taylor, C.
Holmes, K.
Doudle, S.
Publisher
Australian Rangeland Society
Publication Year
2015
Body

The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands are freehold aboriginal lands spanning
approximately 10 million hectares of country in the North West corner of South Australia. APY Land
Management runs three main programs which include Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs), a Women’s
Land Management program and a Black-flanked Rock-wallaby Recovery Program. The IPA program
includes five separate IPAs and covers an area equivalent to almost half the APY Lands.
There are three key ecological issues affecting the APY Lands which are addressed through one or
more of the above Land Management programs, including; Threatened Fauna . . . . .

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Poster
Additional Information
It is recommended that papers in the conference proceedings be cited in the following manner:
Bastin, G, Sparrow, A, Scarth, P., Gill, T. Barneston, J. and Staben G. (2015). Are we there yet? Tracking state and change in Australia's rangelands. In Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Alice Springs (Ed M.H. Friedel) [Australian Rangeland Society: Perth]
Keywords
APY
buffel grass
fire
IPA
South Australia
South Australia
threatened species