The Oak Valley (OV) Rangers are all members of the OV community, located on Maralinga Tjarutja (MT) Lands within the Alinytjara Wilurara (AW) region of South Australia. Although caring for country is traditionally an ongoing cultural practice across the MT Lands, members of the OV Ranger team were selected from the broader community to engage in specific land management activities identified by Traditional Owners and field ecologists as priorities for the MT Lands.

The need to establish a Ranger team was a community-driven priority. A core of community members over a period of many years, trained and worked beside ecologists to extend their skills in preparation for the opportunity to work as a Ranger. Amongst others, skills training included the use of various technical devices and recoding techniques for threatened species surveys. This training combined with their extensive knowledge of country means the Rangers are ideally placed to contribute to the care and broader understanding of their country. In October 2018, six permanent rangers, men and women, were employed along with a number of casual rangers. This was a huge achievement for all the people of OV whose vision of having Traditional Owners employed to return to country and manage the land that has always belonged to them.