What are the seven LNT principles?
1) Plan ahead and prepare
2) Travel and camp on durable surfaces
3) Dispose of waste properly
4) Leave what you find
5) Minimise campfire impacts
6) Respect wildlife
7) Be considerate of your hosts and other visitors
What is Role Modeling in relation to LNT?
- Teaching others about the LNT principles through your personal actions, verbal communication, and body language
- Lead by example and avoid double standards. For example: model appropriate clothing and wear the correct equipment
Why did the aboriginals need to adapt
They lived through difficult geological times such sea levels rising
Survival off the land
they created damns in rivers to create lagoons to prosper fish, eels and bird life
- built canals, races, dykes and traps which helped the catch fish and eels
- they would create sanctuary zones, which allowed reproduction of animals to occur without being threatened
The use of fire
- Early aboriginal used fire as a method to clear the land and enable the capture of fleeting animals
- Fire and smoke a central to a umber of ceremonies
- Some parts of the country where burnt less frequency to allow habitat for animals
- also used for communication
Relationship with early settlers
they had no knowledge of the Australian landscape and climate
Examples of environmental activities
- Using talks or scripts
- Guided walks or tours
- exhibits and signs
- self- guided tails
Talks or scripts
- orientation talks, which can align people to a particular place of interest
What is environmental interpretation
A R T
A: target group, visitors
R: forest, marine environment, mountains
T: thematic approaches, humour, encouraging participation
Describe environmental; interpretation - audience
- know the background/ relationships of people who make up the target group
- plan ahead to meet the needs and interests of the audience
- types of learning: visual, verbal and kinaesthecic
Examples of WA world heritage sites
Shark Bay World Heritage Area.
Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area.
Purnululu National Park World Heritage Area
How long have aboriginals been in Australia
65,000 years
Criteria for being a world heritage site
- to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;
- to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;
- to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;
- to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;
- to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change;
- to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria);
- to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;
- to be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth’s history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features;
- to be outstanding examples representing significant ongoing ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals;
- to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.
The use of fire
warmth
cooking
light
clearing land
Relationship with early settlers
- first fleet arrived in botany bay
Modern day fire management
- DPaW is responsible
What does DPaW stand for
Department of Parks and Wildlife is responsible for management for fire regimes (prescribed burning)
- Also responsible for bushfire response and research into fire behaviour
- have to consider the type of
What is prescribed burning?
- applying fire to an area that has satisfied planned environmental conditions
- it is used to:
Mantain biodiversity
reduce the intensity of bushfires
rehabilitate vegetation
conduct research on fire + interaction wit the environment
