OVER 200 YEARS
Dingoes have been shot, trapped and baited.
GOVERNMENT
LEGISLATION
Dingoes are listed as invasive species and there is no protection. Legislation currently IGNORES the NATIVE TITLE RIGHTS of First Nations People.
THE LIE
The livestock Industry AND Governments use the term 'WILD DOG' to justify the indiscriminate killing of Dingoes.
65,000 YEAR
MANDATE
A Cultural obligation mandated by our Ancestors to RESPECT, PROTECT and CARE for COUNTRY.
Dingo Culture is a grassroots cultural conservation interest that calls Aboriginal people to join and provide the Aboriginal perspective to the dingo debate in Australia. With a dedicated website and growing social media presence, we seek “to provide the First Nations’ voice specifically to the Dingo debate in Australia and create change in legislation to protect culturally significant native fauna and flora”.
(Sonya Takau, Aboriginal founder, advocate, and conservationist.)
Dingo Design copyright - Sonya Takau
Legal Avenues for Indigenous-Led Dingo Conservation and Management
Dingo Culture has been granted pro bono support from a world leading law firm. With the help of this law firm it is hoped that Dingo Culture can campaign governments to address law reforms of current legislation to include the cultural values and heritage of First Nations people to protect Dingoes.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Chuffed Campaign - Traditional Knowledge Recording Project
Currently Dingo Culture is raising funds for a new project which we hope to commence in September this year!
Early historical recordings of the cultural significance of the Dingo to Aboriginal people in Australia has predominantly been recorded by non-indigenous people. These historical accounts are important and provide insight into the topic, however, most written sources of history offer a view of the past from the point of view of those who held power.
We need to rewrite this story, our way.
