Indigenous traditional owners win back Daintree rainforest in historic deal

Cooper Creek in the Daintree rainforest. The world heritage-listed national park is being handed back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people, who will manage it in partnership with the Queensland government. Photograph: Kerry Trapnell/Queensland Conservation Council
October 1, 2021
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The world’s oldest rainforest will join landmarks like Uluru and Kakadu, where First Nations people are custodians of world heritage sites. Eastern Kuku Yalanji people will take formal ownership of the world heritage-listed Daintree tropical rainforest in northern Australia, after the Indigenous traditional owners reached a historic deal with the Queensland government.

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