Caring for Sea Country - Traditional Owner Stories from the Great Barrier Reef

Abstract

First Nations peoples of the Great Barrier Reef carry many lifetimes of cultural and traditional responsibilities to protect and manage Land and Sea Country. They have cared for Country for tens of thousands of years —across deep time and back to the stories of the Dreaming. ‘Caring for Sea Country — Traditional Owner Stories from the Reef’ (Stories from the Reef) shares with you personal and professional reflections of caring for Land and Sea Country of the Reef. Stories that are told today —with the permission of Elders. These stories are part of the future of the Reef, and it is an inter-generational journey of Sea Country.