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Bush Tucker - Tropics
The billabongs, woodlands, sandstone escarpments and coastal beaches of the Northern Territory provide a rich source of food and medicines used by Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years.What we know as “bush tucker” is a multitude of plants and animals that are used in a variety of ways to best extract their nutritional and medicinal values.
They can also be used to make baskets, boats and ceremonial decoration. The different environments of the tropical north feature plants endemic to each habitat, as well as some that thrive across the entire region.
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