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The Southern Tanami
The Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area
An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a class of protected area used in Australia; each is formed by voluntary agreement with Indigenous Australians, and declared by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander representative organisation ...
(IPA) is Walpiri-managed region of the Tanami Desert
The Tanami Desert () is a desert in northern Australia, situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
It has a rocky terrain and small hills. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored by Austral ...
in Central Australia
Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia. In its narrowest sense it describes a region that is limited to the town of Alice Springs and ...
. At 101,600 km2, it is Australia's largest IPA.
IPAs are areas of land and sea Country managed by First Nations groups for biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variability of life, life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and Phylogenetics, phylogenetic diversity. Diversity is not distribut ...
conservation
Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws.
Conservation may also refer to:
Environment and natural resources
* Nature conservation, the protection and manage ...
and cultural outcomes through voluntary agreements with the Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or simply as the federal government, is the national executive government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive consists of the pr ...
. These areas form part of Australia's National Reserve System.
Dedicated in July 2012, the area has significant cultural and natural value. It is managed by the Warlpiri Rangers, of the Central Land Council
The Central Land Council (CLC) is a land council that represents the Aboriginal peoples of the southern half of the Northern Territory of Australia (NT), predominantly with regard to land issues. it is one of four land councils in the Northern ...
's ranger groups combining Yapa (Aboriginal) and Kardiya (non-Aboriginal) knowledges.
The Southern Tanami IPA includes the Reynolds and Truer ranges, as well as sand dunes and salt pans. It has large areas of spinifex hummock grassland with a flowering shrub overstorey. This provides habitat to threatened species such as the ''walpajirri'' (bilby), '' warrarna'' (great desert skink) and ''jajina'' (brush-tailed mulgara).
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