Before the arrival of Europeans, the land now known as Western Australia was home to a diverse range of traditional Australian Aboriginal cultures, spread across numerous language groups, many of which remain today.
Broadly speaking, it has been found that traditional Aboriginal cultures can be linked to major drainage basins[3] and to the IBRA system of Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia.
Thus for example, the Binjareb people took their name from Binjar, a Noongar word meaning wetland and made extensive use of these and the surrounding tuart banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain.
Throughout Western Australia, Aboriginal people were not just passive recipients of the bounty of these natural environments, but actively took a role in the creation and maintenance of these biogeographic regions, through hunting practices, firestick farming,[5] fish trapping and other means that broadly maintained the flora and fauna of their region.
[6][better source needed] Aboriginal traditional cultures have been greatly impacted since the colonisation of Australia began.