Bowden McCormack has been involved from the outset with the Gumatj clan’s remarkable forestry project.

Using selectively chosen gadayka, or stringybark, trees the clan fells, mills and then utilises the timber for construction and furniture work.

The project has changed the lives for many Yolngu men who have found meaning for their lives away from welfare and idleness. The hard work is currently taking place to ensure that the project becomes sustainable through the use of timber from the Rio Tinto Alcan mine site at Gove where currently timber is cleared away and burned to allow extraction of bauxite.

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