Quote of the Moment:

“Good land-care like child-care or any sort of “care” cannot be achieved by legislation. Effective custodianship of our natural resource base can only take place by educating and empowering the people who make the actual day-to-day decisions that affect our landscapes.”
Uncommon good sense

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the Land:
KACHANA - HEART OF THE KIMBERLEY

To understand the history of Kachana we need to go back a very long time. Suffice to say we inherited the custodianship of a desertifying environment fashioned by humans; a man made “brittle environment” in an area that Nature had designed to be largely “non-brittle”.

Our immediate challenge as resource managers is to stabilise our eroding resource base and to revitalise the landscape so that the area can meet our human demands. Our aim is a biologically healthy landscape gaining in biodiversity. The fundamental ecosystem processes at work in this landscape as well as our expectations need to be in tune with Nature’s original design.

“MANAGEMENT” IS THE KEY:

These four areas have the same physical foundations; the difference you see is human management.