Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area

[1] IPAs are areas of land and sea Country managed by First Nations groups for biodiversity conservation and cultural outcomes through voluntary agreements with the Australian Government.These language groups have inhabited this region for at least 10,000 years, or since the tukurpa, when great ancestral beings journeyed about creating landscape features.Vegetation within the IPA includes spinifex, grevillea, hakea and accacia species, as well as mulga woodlands and oak stands.River red gums are common near dry riverbeds as are chenopod shrublands and tea-tree thickets on the margins of salt lake areas.[4] It it also the habitat of numerous threatened species such as the tjakura (great desert skink), murtja (brush-tailed mulgara) and warru  (black-footed rock wallaby).
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