Building the skills and confidence for Martu women to become leaders in their communities and the mainstream world.

Martu women — the holders of traditional botanical knowledge and expertise — will preserve valuable knowledge of bush foods, medicine and other plant materials.

When rains fill the Warntili claypan, the landscape of the desert changes into an abundance of wildlife and activity — and the Parnngurr rangers have captured quite a lot of movement!

Two of KJ’s ranger teams are now managing populations of mulyamiji (Great Desert Skink, Liopholis kintorei) — a species culturally significant for Martu, endemic to the western half of Australia and nationally listed as a vulnerable species.

More than 50 Martu of all ages — including ranger teams, families, school children and artists — came together for KJ’s first ever Language Camp! 

Rangers have been involved in successful helicopter mapping activities to relocate waterholes out of Punmu and Kunawarritji. The work was combined with waru (fire) work to look after the country.

Martu rangers and staff from Punmu and Kunawaritji schools came together recently (alongside many rangers and elders in Parnngurr) to learn and record elders’ language and stories.