New Partner Announcement

Great Barrier Reef Foundation

elemental mktg is proud to announce its partnership with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation (Queensland, Australia) to elevate the voices of the Traditional Owners of the land and sea Country on and around the Great Barrier Reef. 

Australia’s First Nations Peoples are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Many have enduring ancestral and cultural ties to specific areas and are referred to as Traditional Owners. For more than 60,000 years, they have successfully cared for Country using ecological Knowledge passed down through ancestral lines. Now, they are being called upon to co-design critical conservation methods and strategies with the scientific community to mitigate the effects of climate change, and a range of additional local threats to one of the world’s most delicate and complex ecosystems—the Great Barrier Reef. 

On April 10, five representatives of Traditional Owner groups will present their groundbreaking model for co-design and co-delivery at the UN Ocean Decades Conference (Event: Indigenous Knowledge systems and community-engaged ocean science) as a leading example of what’s possible when Indigenous Knowledge is combined with western science to create better, stronger, and more enduring outcomes.