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Kakadu National Park

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Anna Pickworth from Kakadu National Park, will be presenting as a panellist during Session 1.5 - Fire in the Top End: NT Panel.

Kakadu is a living cultural landscape. It has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 65,000 years. Ours is the oldest living culture on earth.

Kakadu is the largest national park in Australia, covering almost 20,000 square kilometres. That’s nearly half the size of Switzerland!

The park is dual World Heritage-listed for its outstanding natural and cultural values.

Kakadu is Aboriginal land. Our people have kept it healthy for thousands of years. Today, we work hand-in-hand with Parks Australia to manage Kakadu, using a mix of traditional ways and modern science.

Since the late 1970s Kakadu’s traditional owners have leased their land to the Director of National Parks to be jointly managed as a national park. Joint management is about Bininj/Mungguy and Parks Australia working together, solving problems, sharing decision making and exchanging knowledge, skills and information.

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