Footprint
We partner with Traditional Owners, community groups and land holders to restore the health of Country and people through Indigenous Land Management practices. This collaborative work delivers diverse outcomes, from boosting community resilience and agricultural profitability to creating employment and revitalising koala habitats. It demonstrates what can be achieved when communities determine the way forward. Explore some of the work we’ve achieved with our partners.
Awakabal Country | Credit: Saskia Wilson
BPAC Partnership
Wakka Wakka Country
On Wakka Wakka Country in the Bunya Mountains, Firesticks works in close partnership with the Bunya Peoples Aboriginal Corporation (BPAC). Together, we’ve supported and mentored 22 community members to deepen their knowledge and revitalise Cultural Fire management across the region. BPAC is also a key partner in the Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Resilience project, helping to rejuvenate agricultural landscapes through Cultural Fire.
In 2025, BPAC led a Cultural Burn on Wakka Wakka/Jarowair Country with the Nyanda Jagera Rangers and Firesticks. These grasslands—once an important travel pathway for mob journeying to the Bunya gatherings—have gone decades without cultural management. Reintroducing fire is helping restore ecological balance and protect the surrounding rainforest, which has been heavily impacted since colonisation.
This landscape is home to endangered species such as the Bunya Blue Grass and the Bunya Sun Skink, and provides vital habitat and food for wallabies, kangaroos and native birds. Cultural Burning also helps manage wattle overgrowth and rainforest pioneer encroachment, protecting what locals call “the balds”—open grassy areas essential to both animals and people.
By returning fire and cultural stewardship to this Country, we are witnessing the land begin to thrive again, guided by knowledge that has always sustained it.
“Passing on my knowledge is important to keep our culture alive for generation after generation.”
Dallas Bond
Wakka Wakka Man and Cultural Fire Practitioner at Bunya Peoples’ Aboriginal Corporation
Wakka Wakka Country | Cultural Burn with BPAC, Californian Exchange Crew and Firesticks Credit: Bella Laifoo