Kakadu National Park

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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