Australian state gives ownership of world's oldest rainforest to local Indigenous people

Record ID: 1639124

  • Title: Australian state gives ownership of world's oldest rainforest to local Indigenous people
  • Date: 29th September 2021
  • Summary: DAINTREE RAINFOREST, AUSTRALIA (FILE - 2018) (REUTERS) DAINTREE RIVER, AS SEEN FROM BOAT SALTWATER CROCODILE ON BANK OF RIVER RAINFOREST FOLIAGE CASSOWARY AND CASSOWARY CHICKS IN RAINFOREST BOARDWALK THROUGH RAINFOREST
  • Embargoed: 13th October 2021 10:58
  • Keywords: Australia Daintree Queensland indigenous ownership rainforest traditional owners world heritage
  • Location: BLOOMFIELD, DAINTREE RAINFOREST, AUSTRALIA
  • City: BLOOMFIELD, DAINTREE RAINFOREST, AUSTRALIA
  • Country: Australia
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Australia,Race Relations / Ethnic Issues,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA002EWRTB2F
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Australia's third most populated state said on Wednesday (September 29) it has given ownership of the world's oldest tropical rainforest to a local Indigenous group.
    The Daintree Rainforest - listed as a World Heritage Site since 1988 - has been growing for 180 million years and is famed for its rich biodiversity but has come under sustained pressure from climate change and industries such as logging.
    In striking a new deal to manage the rainforest, Queensland state said the Daintree would be returned to the traditional owners of the land. The deal was signed by Queensland Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon at a ceremony in Bloomfield.
    The agreement is the first time Queensland has transferred the ownership of a national park land in the Wet Tropics region to an Indigenous group.
    Australia's Uluru and Kakadu park in the country's remote north are already owned by local Indigenous population.
    (Production: Jill Gralow, James Redmayne)
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