Noongar-Wudjari Names for Animals and Plants

This list is an output of the Noongar-Wudjari Plant and Animal online Encyclopedia Project and provides a list of Noongar-Wudjari names for plants and animals cross referenced to western scientific names.

Project summary

Noongar Boodjar Language Centre (NBLC) in Perth have partnered with the Atlas of Living Australia to link Noongar-Wudjari language and knowledge for plants and animals to western science knowledge to create the Noongar-Wudjari Plant and Animal online Encyclopedia. This project focused on the Noongar-Wudjari clan, from the South coast of WA, and worked specifically with Wudjari knowledge holders - Lynette Knapp and Gail Yorkshire to record, preserve and share their ancestral language and knowledge about plants and animals. Knowledge and language for 90 plants and animals were collected and are now ready for publication through the Atlas of Living Australia (ala.org.au).

The Noongar-Wudjari Plant and Animal online Encyclopedia Project centred around intergenerational knowledge transfer by working directly with traditional knowledge custodians of the bloodline of Wudjari Nation, Lynette Knapp and Gail Yorkshire, to collect, record, protect and share ancestral ecological knowledge. The project focused on training young people in language, ancestral and cultural data collection, fieldwork, community consultations, data management and presentation, plant and animal identification and cultural mapping.

On-Country visits were an integral part of this work and from August 2020 to September 2021 we conducted three on-Country trips, firstly to consult and plan the project with the Traditional Custodians – Gail and Lynette, and two field trips, with these Custodians, to collect language and knowledge for their Country’s plants and animals.
Visiting Country is important because Indigenous ecological knowledge comes from life experience, being part of the land and accessing knowledge from 70K years of oral tradition. Bringing the Wudjari knowledge holders together, on their traditional Country, activated their language brain and their bilingual and autobiographic memory – an active process of interpretation, inference, and reconstruction. This meant the more they discussed stories of plants and animals, the more they remembered.

本列表是Noongar-Wudjari动植物在线百科全书项目的成果，包含Noongar-Wudjari语言中的动植物名称，并与西方科学名称交叉引用。

Project summary

珀斯的Noongar Boodjar语言中心（NBLC）与澳大利亚活生物图谱（Atlas of Living Australia）合作，将Noongar-Wudjari语言中的动植物知识与西方科学知识相连接，创建了Noongar-Wudjari动植物在线百科全书。该项目聚焦于西澳大利亚州（WA）南海岸的Noongar-Wudjari部落，并专门与Wudjari知识持有者——Lynette Knapp和Gail Yorkshire合作，记录、保存和分享他们关于动植物的祖传语言及知识。已收集到90种动植物的相关知识和语言资料，目前正准备通过澳大利亚活生物图谱（ala.org.au）发布。

Noongar-Wudjari动植物在线百科全书项目以代际知识传递为核心，通过直接与Wudjari民族血统的传统知识守护者Lynette Knapp和Gail Yorkshire合作，收集、记录、保护和分享祖传生态知识。项目还致力于培训年轻人掌握语言、祖传及文化数据收集、田野调查、社区咨询、数据管理与展示、动植物识别以及文化制图等技能。

实地考察（On-Country visits）是这项工作的重要组成部分。2020年8月至2021年9月期间，我们开展了三次实地考察：首次与传统守护者Gail和Lynette就项目进行咨询和规划；另外两次则与这些守护者一同进行田野调查，收集其领地内动植物的语言和知识资料。
实地考察至关重要，因为原住民生态知识源于生活经验、对土地的融入，以及对7万年口述传统知识的传承。让Wudjari知识持有者在其传统领地上相聚，能够激活他们的语言思维及双语与自传式记忆——这是一个包含诠释、推理和重构的主动过程。这意味着他们对动植物故事的讨论越深入，记忆就越清晰。