Photos by Michaela Skovranova mishkusk | In Sydney, Robert Cooley grew up on the shores of Gamay (the Indigenous name for Botany Bay) and became a senior Gamay ranger in 2019. The gamayrangers are the first permanent urban Indigenous ranger group in Australia, providing employment and training as well as opportunities for the rangers to utilize their unique cultural knowledge of the land and sea to care for country and community. “The goal of the program is to have the ability to influence change in the way the bay is managed," Cooley says. "To have a voice which we have never had before, and ultimately actively participate in land and sea management to help reverse the impact of development." Today the bay is the city's industrial hub, with a fuel storage facility, the airport, and port “right next to our last remaining patch of mangroves," he says. Industrial development has had a devastating impact on the health of the local ecosystem, cultural sites such as shell middens and rock...