Connecting to Jagun
Connecting to Country for healing and community resilience
This project aims to heal community members impacted by the 2019-20 bushfires and improve their cultural and social connections to each other and the wider community.
A comprehensive series of workshops taking place across the Northern Rivers region will help inform and educate mob and landholders in order to build resilience into Country to help mitigate future natural hazards including bushfires.
Beyond the workshops the program includes identifying potential sites for burning, assisting landholders and stakeholders in developing burn plans for their properties, and restoring cultural fire to the landscape where possible.
You can learn more about the Connecting to Jagun program by reading some of Our Fire Yarns.
“We want to enhance the cultural life of our communities here in the Northern Rivers by providing opportunities to come together, learn some techniques for mitigating the risk of bushfires while simultaneously improving our connections to Jagun (country).”
Oliver Costello — Executive Director, Jagun Alliance
