We are proud to have endorsed our First Nations Engagement and Solidarity Policy to guide how we engage with First Nations people and communities.
This Policy will be implemented over the next three years and builds upon decades of work in partnership and solidarity with First Nations communities.
We acknowledge Australia’s history of genocide, dispossession, and colonisation of First Nations people, including the ongoing attempts of the colonial state to destroy the relationship of First Nations people to their lands and waters.
We believe that our mission to protect and conserve the natural environment of the Northern Territory will be ineffective and reproduce colonial attitudes and structures unless we work in solidarity with First Nations people and acknowledge and seek to support their values, worldviews and objectives.
The Environment Centre NT has adopted the following core principles with respect to campaigns and projects concerning First Nations peoples, which will be embedded across all our work:
- Strive for Free, Prior and Informed Consent
- Ensure our campaigns are culturally informed by affected First Nations communities and peoples
- Ensure our engagement with First Nations communities on campaigns and projects is meaningful
- Conduct our campaigns and projects with cultural competence
- Support First Nations-led campaigns that protect Country and seek to advance protection of the environment and the rights of First Nations peoples.
