The 10 Deserts Project is an exciting Indigenous land management collaboration across Australia’s desert country.

Sustaining the largest Indigenous-led connected conservation network on Earth, the project aims to keep Australia’s outback healthy for the benefit of the entire world. The 10 Deserts Project aims to build the capacity of Indigenous groups to look after country for a range of economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes.

The project integrates contemporary natural resource management best-practice with traditional cultural and ecological knowledge and establish systems and approaches, including long-term financing and market enabling strategies that will build environmental resilience across the desert landscape.

In 2021, 10 Deserts are planning on creating paid internships for between 2-4 Indigenous men and women to become trained in fire management. The internships will run for about two years and will provide training and support in different ways of looking after country using fire. If you, or someone you know, is interested in getting skilled up in fire management contact Gareth at 10 Deserts directly (garethcatt@dss.org.au).