Dambimangari Fire Project

Dambimangari Fire Project is a savanna fire management project located in the remote North Kimberley region of Western Australia, approximately 190km northeast of Derby. It was registered in February 2014 and covers 805,799 hectares across the traditional lands of the Dambimangari people.

Savanna fire management projects involve strategically planned burning during the early dry season when vegetation is less dry and fires burn cooler. This traditional "right-way" fire management reduces fuel loads, creating firebreaks that significantly lower the risk and severity of destructive late dry season wildfires, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The North Kimberley region is predominantly used for conservation, Indigenous Protected Areas, and pastoral cattle grazing. The area is classified as a high rainfall tropical savanna, experiencing a distinct monsoonal wet season. Soils in this region are generally ancient, weathered sands, sandy loams, and stony earth soils.

This project is operated on behalf of the Wanjina-Wunggurr (Native Title) Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC, with operational support from the Kimberley Land Council. It forms a key part of the broader North Kimberley Fire Abatement Project, integrating ancient Indigenous ecological knowledge with modern monitoring tools. In December 2015, the project transitioned to the 2015 methodology determination and expanded its project area to further reduce fire emissions across both the high and low rainfall zones.