Article: FED: Nature reserves declared in top end


AAP General News (Australia)
09-24-2009
FED: Nature reserves declared in top end

CANBERRA, Sept 24 AAP - Australia has established two massive nature reserves spanning
more than two million hectares in the Northern Territory to be looked after by Aborigines.

It will turn the top end into a major "conservation corridor", Environment Minister
Peter Garrett says.

The first of the two parks - the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area - was officially
declared on Thursday and covers almost 1.4 million hectares on the Arnhem Land plateau
adjacent to Kakadu National Park.

It was home to 50,000-year-old rock art sites that rivalled those found in the World
Heritage-listed Kakadu, as well as ...

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