National Geographic - UK (2022-05)

TOP A kangaroo painting, in an x-ray style that shows organs, decorates the roof of a cave known as Manaamnam, one of tens of th ...

Using long-handled crowbars to probe the marshy grasslands, Warddeken rangers Rosemary Nabulwad, Arijay Nabarlambarl, Margaret N ...

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FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE is not a new concept. Fire management is used by Indigenous peo- ple all over the world but has gained r ...

Adelaide River Gunbalanya (Oenpelli) Katherine Batchelor Pine Creek Peppimenarti Jabiru Maningrida Bulman Weemol Darwin Nauiyu K ...

TOP With his son Tyson at his side, Maralngurra talks with archaeologist Ches- ter Clarke about clearing brush from rock art sit ...

TOP A cleared path circles an isolated grove of anbinik growing on the savanna. Many of the huge trees, cherished by Aboriginal ...

Aboriginal-owned company that’s responsible for the protected area. “It’s putting so much investment back into remote communitie ...

Kabulwarnamyo, and Manmoyi outstations. Being a ranger is a huge source of pride, espe- cially for young women, like Narorrga, w ...

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After lighting the bark on some nearby trees, Stacey Lee hunts for snakes in the fires’ glow, while Evelyn Narorrga, carrying a ...

with painted images. It’s one of an estimated 30,000 rock art sites in the protected area. Until recently, although around 50 ch ...

meaningful employment, family, and education are what will keep them here. He’s confident that by returning to country, they can ...

The Central African country of Gabon is home to the most forest elephants, about 95,000—two-thirds of the entire population. Poa ...

A FRAGILE REFUGE FOR FOREST ELEPHANTS BY YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASPER DOEST IN A REMOTE FOREST IN GABON, WARMER ...

A forest elephant reaches for the fruit of a Detarium macro- carpum tree in Lopé National Park. Fruit is the most nutritious par ...

Pentaclethra macrophylla Trichoscypha acuminata 3. Nauclea latifolia 4. Strychnos congolana 5. Nauclea diderrichii 6. Sacoglott ...

Forest elephants graze in Lopé’s grasslands, remnants of arid periods in the last ice age 12,000 years ago. Covering more than 1 ...

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An emaciated female forest elephant may be evidence that climate change is harming even the most untouched forests. Scientists t ...