‘The idea is coming of age': Indigenous Australians take carbon farming to Canada

Australia’s world-leading Indigenous land management and carbon farming programs are spreading internationally, with a formal agreement signed to help build a similar program in Canada.

 Traditional owner Philip Yam at Oriners station, Cape York,
where rangers teach land management skills based on
Indigenous knowledge and innovative technology. 

A chance meeting between Rowen Foley from the Aboriginal Carbon Fund and a Candian carbon credit businessman at the 2015 Paris climate conference spawned a relationship that led to an agreement this week that will help Canadian First Nations peoples learn from the Australian Aboriginal carbon farming success.

“Sometimes chance meetings are a form of karma or synchronicity at play,” Foley says.

Foley set up the Aboriginal Carbon Fund in 2010 to help other Indigenous organisations make money by managing land in such a way that it sequesters carbon in the soil.

Read Micheal Slezak’s story on The Guardian - “‘The idea is coming of age': Indigenous Australians take carbon farming to Canada.”