You’ll love this ep, I just know it 🐋🦅 It’s for you if you like baby seahorses and migrating whales, if you live in a coastal city, if you've heard about wildlife coming back into harbours during lockdowns, or if you want to know what a strong collaboration between Indigenous knowledge-holders and western science looks like.

Robert Cooley is a Senior Ranger and leader of the Gamay Rangers, an Indigenous ranger team that cares for country on Gamay, or Botany Bay in Sydney, and on conservation land owned by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council. Since 2019, the Gamay Rangers team have been regenerating coastal habitats, protecting marine mammals, providing food for vulnerable people during Covid lockdowns and connecting local communities to Sea Country in Australia’s biggest city.

You can find Robert and the Gamay Ranger team on socials @gamayrangers. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep:

La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council

Operation Crayweed - restoring Sydney’s underwater forests

Operation Posidonia - healing old wounds

The Sydney Seahorse Project (SIMS/Gamay Rangers)

SIMS Aboriginal Youth Ranger Program

Wild Sydney Harbour - citizen science project

Country Needs People - what are Indigenous Rangers?

Indigenous Rangers (NIAA/gov)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Bidjigal lands. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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This one’s for you if you’re into craft beer, you like dreaming up side hustles with your mates, you’re a chef wanting to experiment with kelpy umami or if you’re an aspiring seaweed farmer 👩🏽‍🍳🍻

Cam Hines and Brent “Bert” Cross are two of the three founders of Southern Seagreens. From backgrounds in craft beer and naval diving, they joined forces with Rob (the third, a scientist) to learn how to farm native kelp at their sea farm down in Flinders, Victoria. They also hunt wakame, one of the world’s most invasive (yet delicious) species, and turning it all into tasty treats.

You can find Cam & Bert via the Southern Greens website or socials. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep:

AU government Invasive pests: Wakame control plan

Removing wakame (Parks Victoria)

Mountain Goat Beer

Aegir Divers (Bert’s company)

GreenWave - global network of regenerative ocean farmers

Reviving Tassie’s giant kelp with Mick Baron (SP companion episode about Macrocystis)

Seaweed babies & kelp farms with Jo Lane (another companion ep about Ecklonia radiata)

An Overview of the Alternative Use of Seaweeds to Produce Safe and Sustainable Bio-Packaging (Lomartire et al., 2022 - research)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal land and Boon Wurrung/Bunurong land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.