Students will work closely with Parks and Wildlife, Weeds Management Branch and indigenous organisations to undertake a range of activities focussing on the main feature of the Borroloola community, the McArthur River.  It is intended that students develop a `micro' understanding of how and why this river system is critical to their lives and why it should be managed with a careful and sensitive approach. 

Action learning tasks will include mammal trapping, freshwater macro invertebrate testing, food web analysis, weed identification activities.  They will also investigate Parkinsonia control programs, mapping its distribution and study biological control techniques by breeding and releasing native wasp predators.

Middle Primary students at Pularumpi School will host a three day excursion and a camp at Wulawunga on Melville Island and invite two sister schools, one of which is from the mainland, to assist them in developing an action plan for marine sustainability.  The Action Plan will be written by students for students and will be presented to the local council.

The project follows on from very exciting work the school undertook in 2005 when they worked with the World Wildlife Fund looking at sea turtles and the sustainability of marine life.  Project work was displayed in the Landcare office in Darwin and at the NT Landcare Awards in Katherine.