Elements and Performance Criteria
- Investigate cultural knowledge
- Obtain cultural knowledge from an appropriate person within the Community
- Determine and record key principles, values and practices of cultural knowledge
- Define the relationship between cultural knowledge and management of Country
- Establish ownership of and parameters for transferring cultural knowledge
- Identify locations and patterns of plants and animals in a specific area
- Identify plants, animals and resources used for medicine and food
- Identify and record bush foods and medicines for a specific area
- Use common and Indigenous names to describe plants and animals
- Collect plant and animal samples for future identification in accordance with legislative requirements, enterprise procedures and environmentally sustainable practices and animal welfare codes of practice, where applicable
- Follow work health and safety policies and procedures when working on Country
- Define and document issues in relation to Indigenous access and use
- Relate information on cultural knowledge to others
- Provide information on cultural knowledge to those who are authorised to possess that knowledge
- Relate information on cultural knowledge in an appropriate format and medium
- Refer requests for disclosure of information on cultural heritage that infringes intellectual property rights of a group or Community to appropriate persons
- Decline requests for disclosure of information on aspects of cultural knowledge by unauthorised individuals