page_title: Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area
section_title: Challenges
hierarchical_section_title: Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area / Imanpa / Challenges
caption_attribution_description: English: Camel control fence on Angas Downs showing improvements to vegetation without camel, cattle and horse browsing.
context_page_description: Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area is an Aboriginal Australian-owned 320,500-hectare pastoral lease, within the MacDonnell Shire area, 300 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 135 kilometres east from Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, 100 kilometres south-east of Kings Canyon/Watarrka National Park and 40 kilometres from Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse on the Lasseter Highway. The property is a pastoral lease held by the Imanpa Development Association.
  It was declared and formally recognised as an Indigenous Protected Area as part of the Australian Government's Caring for our Country scheme on 10 June 2009. The property forms part of Australia's National Reserve System.
  Previous land management practices and other anthropogenic pressures had damaged Angas Downs, and many native species have disappeared. Preferred game and important animals are less common and feral animals and weeds pose a major challenge.
context_section_description: As for many remote Indigenous Communities in Australia, the Imanpa Community faces significant health, employment and educational challenges. Senior men and women say there is a breakdown in the old ways and that law and culture - the Tjukurpa is being lost. Land management activities restore the station environment and also improve the self-esteem and motivation of the Indigenous people by appealing to their aspiration to care for their country, and provide opportunities for training, employment and economic development. The Anangu elders, the Tjilpis and Myinkmaku, believe many social and health problems are the result of a breakdown in the old ways, and that implementation of Tjukurpa (Anangu customary knowledge) and restoring the land would help solve these problems. Piranpa (white fella science) and Tjukurpa  can work together to do these things. It will make sure Tjukurpa and culture continue, and get children and grandchildren to learn about land. Looking after land is the key to Tjukurpa. Also more bush tucker means healthier food.
  Anangu want to increase the amount of kuka (game animals like emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) and mai (plant food) like quandong (Santalum acuminatum)). Anangu also want to bring back species that aren’t in the land any more like mala and common brushtail possum.
caption: Camel control fence on Angas Downs showing improvements to vegetation without camel, cattle and horse browsing.
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