1. About Us
(About/About Us)

... to come. TKRP seeks to support Indigenous Elders to mentor the process of Indigenous Knowledge Research and recording throughout Australia and with interests Inter-nationally.  The Initiat...

2. TKRP Film and Production Services
(Services/Film and Production Services)

...ing and editing films from a traditional story line or for a case study supporting an education or research project.  Most community projects usually have youth or community members undertakin...

3. TKRP Land Management Services
(Services/Contracting Land Management Services)

TKRP provides services and support around traditional land management and research projects.  The aspirations around re-implementing traditional management regimes, is to demonstrate the va

4. Latest News: Elders fears confirmed
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...haypan country for the last ten years confirms Elders concerns about the regularity and extent of late season wildfire in their country. The first time in ten years that country is burnt in April with...

5. Meet the team
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...onservation organisations and completed a Masters of Environmental Management through coursework and research project.  Her Masters is also awarded by Griffith University.  This lead her to ...

6. Graphs and Maps
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...hting the increase in extent of fires that tend to occur over the ten year period during the late dry season through early storm to the wet season for each of the years. Further analysis with climat...

7. Journal Articles
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

The research project has generated two published papers to date in the fields of human computer interaction design focused on the methodology of the project.  We presently have one in print for 3

8. Project methodology
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...nacting their TKRP.  The Elders efforts are also being described with support from their co-researchers through through their TKRP and PhD research project. It is an Indigenous led co-generat...

9. Project Protocols
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

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10. Project achievements
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

The project is demonstrating a culturally appropriate research framework: Describing Indigenous created and led research methodologies Recording traditional fire management knowledge Transferr

11. Moriori Project Report 2008
(Communities - Moriori/Moriori)

...pastoralists, government and the general public). 6.    Creating practical action, research-driven, projects as live case studies to better collaborative land and community manageme...

12. Water We Know
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

...in 2006.  The case studies in the film where actual concerns of the community regarding river and sea management from a traditional prospective.  Elders Stanley Kalkeeyorta and Rebecca Wolmb...

13. Bush Foods Documentary
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

...bsp;   Elder Stan Kalkeyorta takes us to the heart of Wik traditional lands, at the end of wet season where he reveals his bush foods secrets and traditional knowledge. Wik Mungkan speak...

14. Fire and the Story
(TKRP MOVIES/Fire and the Story)

...bsp; Other clans and areas involved are Kuranda, Laura, Aurukun, Lakefield, Cape Tribulation, Gulf, Research outcomes and Pastoral properties.  The film is dedicated to Kuku-Thaypan Elder Ge...

15. Land Management
(Communities - Kuku Thaypan/ Kuku Thaypan - Cape York)

Click here to view Awu-Laya - (Kuku-Thaypan) Fire Research Project. Click here to view Rarda - (Low Lake) case study. Click here to view Ndolgun - (Pelican Lake) Case study.  Click here to

16. Education Shell
(Case Studies/Education Shell)

...es of their traditional knowledge. Supporting initiatives such as digital technology and practical research implementations, have shown demonstrative pathways in culturally reviving future generati...

17. Fire and the Story Documentary
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

...bsp; Other clans and areas involved are Kuranda, Laura, Aurukun, Lakefield, Cape Tribulation, Gulf, Research outcomes and Pastoral properties. This application is to support the launch of the ...

18. Kuku-Thaypan Pelican Lake Project
(Case Studies/Kuku-Thaypan Pelican Lake)

... waterways, which feed into the river systems and flow into Princess Charlotte Bay.  Every wet season the floods start from these natural havens and wash tonnes of unhealthy mud down our rive...

19. Project History
(Communities - Buru/Buru)

...nd documented for future generation to hear and see. Buru is a harsh country and with it comes, seasonal changes six months of dry and the other six months is wet. The knowledge Peter and Poll...

20. Kuku-Thaypan Elders Dr T.George and Dr G.Musgrave.
(Communities - Kuku Thaypan/ Kuku Thaypan - Cape York)

... The Elders also received Honorary Doctorates by James Cook University, for their contribution to research and other cultural and environmental initiatives.  The Elders main message is that t...

21. Partnerships, and Supporting Agencies.
(About/Partnerships)

...veloped TKRP's website and provides web support. James Cook University is supporting the Fire Research Project. The Cape York Peninsula Development Association is supporting the Fire Res...

22. About
(Static Content)

...ns to come. TKRP seeks to support Indigenous Elders to mentor the process of Indigenous Knowledge Research and recording throughout Australia and with interests Inter-nationally.  The Initiati...

23. Research
(Category Blog)

24. Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project
(Section Blog)

The Kuku Thaypan Fire Management Research Project (KTFMRP) and co-generative PhD "The Importance of Campfires to Effective Conservation Communication" were initiated in 2005 by Snr. A