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Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Martuwarra Fitzroy River Keepers Research Project

Program: 
Program 1.6 - Research and Evaluation
Activity type: 
Enabling activity: Research
Approved: 
February 2024
Contract start: 
March 2024
Provider: 
Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council Incorporated (MRFCI)
Last updated: 
28th March 2024
Underway

Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council Incorporated (MFRCI) will deliver the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Keepers Research Project. This is a three-year research project to create sustainable lifeways from Indigenous knowledge to ensure climate adaptation, resilience, and resourcefulness.  The project will study the effects of climate change on the Fitzroy River and deliver a co-designed program of participatory action research on mapping and collecting stories combined with ecology zone management to create an evidence base of local knowledge and assets for new economies.