Traditional Owner-led restoration of urban billabongs

这个由土著科学家领导的项目旨在通过古环境分析(沉积物岩心)以及对植被、动物和水质对文化烧伤和洪水的反应进行实地调查，调查城市分流过去和现在的火灾、洪水和植被动态。与墨尔本水务和传统业主合作，这个创新项目旨在发展和结合历史和当代生态和土著人民的知识，并将其应用于更好地管理澳大利亚最大城市之一的具有文化和生态意义的分水岭。该项目期望为我们受威胁的城市湿地的有效传统业主主导的恢复和管理提供一个模板。

This Indigenous scientist led project aims to investigate the past and present fire, flooding and vegetation dynamics of urban billabongs through paleoenvironmental assays (sediment cores) and field surveys of vegetation, faunal and water quality responses to cultural burns and floods. In partnership with Melbourne Water and Traditional Owners, this innovative project intends to develop and combine historical and contemporary ecological and Indigenous peoples’ knowledge and apply it to better manage culturally and ecologically significant billabongs in one of Australia’s largest cities. This project expects to provide a template for effective Traditional Owner-led restoration and management of our threatened urban wetlands.