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The land includes exclusive native title over approximately 45,000 square kilometres, east and west of the town of Norseman. In 2020 the Ngadju Indigenous Protected Area was dedicated on Ngadju land. [2] The Ngadju serve as traditional custodians of the area, which covers 43,993.01 km 2, about a quarter of the Great Western Woodlands. [3]
Ngadju Indigenous Protected Area is an Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia. It covers an area of 43.993.01 km 2 in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The protected area was established in 2020. The Ngadju people serve as traditional custodians of the land. [2]
The first of the two deposits, Nova, was discovered in July 2012 while the second one, Bollinger, was discovered the following year in February. [2] The native title of the land the mine operates on is held by the Ngadju people, their claim to traditional ownership having been recognised by the Federal Court of Australia on 21 November 2014.
The locality is extensively covered by protected areas, the Dundas Nature Reserve and the Ngadju Indigenous Protected Area. Mount Buraminya, with a height of 233 metres (764 ft), is located in the south of Buraminya. Buraminya's eastern and south-eastern borders are formed by the boundary of Nuytsland Nature Reserve and Cape Arid National Park.
Western Australia, as of 2022, has 18 Indigenous Protected Areas.At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, 50,915,811 hectares (125,815,710 acres) of land in Western Australia was covered by Indigenous Protected Areas, which is 66.87 percent of all protected areas in the state and 20.15 percent of the state overall.
The quest for gold led to the establishment of Norseman, on the traditional land of the Ngadju. [citation needed] Today there are a number of small goldmining operations in the area but only the Central Norseman Gold Corporation can be considered a major producer.
The traditional owners of the lands encompassed by the Shire are the Wudjari people of the Noongar nation and the Ngadju people. [6]The Wudjari's traditional lands occupy most of the shire but the eastern tribes of the Wudjari, the Njunga, are seen as a separate people for cultural reasons, having adopted [when?] different cultural practices.
The Valley of the Giants skywalk at Walpole-Nornalup National Park. Western Australia is the second largest country subdivision in the world.. As of 2022, based on the latest Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report, it contains 1857 separate land-based protected areas with a total area of 76,142,710 hectares (188,152,700 acres), accounting for just over 30 percent of the state ...