Rangers from Yalata Aboriginal Community using drones to care for local land

Indigenous rangers from a remote South Australian community are using drones and thermal technology to care for country.

Yalata community visit the newly discovered rock hole for the first time. Credit: Andrew Alderson

Key Points

• Rangers from Yalata Aboriginal Community are flying drones at the Great Australian Bight.
• Perfectly formed mountains of sand line the coast, and a whale rests in the water not far from the beach.
• The community has invested the profits from its own roadhouse and other enterprises to fund the technology.

 The Anangu people at Yalata were forced off their homelands further inland when Britain began nuclear testing at Maralinga in the 1950s.

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