Securing the future of the fitzroy falls spiny crayfish

the beautiful artwork done by Uncle Noel
it's about our spine is in the water in
our river system and and protecting them
passing down that knowledge that they're
an endangered species in this area and
we need to look after them
to me
I feel as though that these logs are
actually reflecting back on Aboriginal
ancestral is to your tree scarring
which is known as madama
I feel really really honored to to have
Noel's beautiful totem poles here to
raise the profile
there's a lot of animals around here
that have a lot of focus on them like
the live Birds and the Wombats but
unfortunately the crayfish just kind of
just get lost in the mix so it's really
good that as soon as you arrive you can
see that oh there are actually crayfish
here
I'm really glad that people are starting
to recognize that
the actual Fitzroy 4 Spanish crayfish is
such an amazing creature so I just
thought it was stunning it's beautiful
I can just see the amount of work that
has gone into it as well and the amount
of thought and cultural knowledge
uh this project came about through
recognizing the need to do some work on
this species and chasing some funding to
do that there was some grants going with
the national land CARE program we were
able to access some federal funding and
that was able us to do some of these
projects
it's really good to have this group of
people that are really sort of focused
on this little species that might seem
small but is very important to the
ecosystem
they play a really important role in
sediment processing in The Creeks they
process the detritus that falls to the
bottom and they really make these
nutrients available to other species
that are further down in the food chain
yeah they're pretty cool they're big and
they're all colors of the rainbow when
you see them in the water
building these Partnerships making the
adjacent landowners aware of the value
of their Creek this is the only place in
the world it exists so it's very
important that the community get behind
Environmental Protection projects we try
and network between government and
non-government organizations local
community groups land owners anybody
really that's got an interest if we can
pour those connections together it's
amazing what you can achieve
if we don't care about things like the
physical or Spanish crayfish then we're
not caring about you know where we live
we're not caring about ourselves in a
way if we lose species like that we're
losing the heritage of this planet
these species some cases have been
around for millions of years so it'd be
a shame that on our watch we allow them
to go extinct
the sea life and the wildlife and Mother
Earth I I think it's something that
that really needs to be looked after
it's really important that we get the
younger generation to understand that
they need to get involved and the first
step is having awareness
understanding what the threats are
understanding what you can do as an
individual but also you know promoting
them The Wider Society
it's also teaching the kids about you
know their own culture in this area and
what's important in this area and how
that can help to protect it and keep it
safe