Far North Queensland, Australia. Source: WikiMedia Commons, CC-BY

Far North Queensland, Australia. Source: WikiMedia Commons, CC-BY

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In recent decades, there has been a shift both globally and within Australia towards community engagement in protected area management. In Australia, this has manifested in Aboriginal participation and decision-making in a range of protected areas. One form this takes is the joint management of already-existing national parks that have been transfe...

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... article is based on approximately 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2020, with the substantive period being in 2018 and 2019. 2 The ethnographic fieldwork involved long-term participant observation in a large remote area park, located in southeast Cape York Peninsula, several hours drive from the nearest town ( Figure 1). To protect the privacy of my participants, I have omitted the name of the park, the Aboriginal language groups and clan groups, and the names of individuals. ...