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Kosciuszko - Our top park needs better management

Australia's unique high country is disappearing. Commercial developments scar the landscape. The hard hooves of feral horses trample fragile alpine plants and streambeds. Trail-riders spread weeds and leave the hills criss-crossed with paths. Meanwhile, the backdrop of global warming continued to worsen.

This park needs your immediate support.

Urgent: Act now to support a strong plan for the future of Kosciuszko National Park - the draft plan about to be signed off by the Minister for the Environment.

Snow Gum at Charlotte's Pass (photo by Dianne Thompson)

Kosciuszko is one of the world's great national parks, and the largest in New South Wales. It covers almost 675,000 hectares, and the highest mountains in Australia.

The park protects:

It is also the only alpine area in NSW, and contains plant species found nowhere else in the world.

This wilderness, however, is under threat from a number of sides:

• The expansion of unsustainable commercial ski fields,
  
• Inappropriate recreational activities such as horse-riding and 4WDs,
  
• Inadequate control of feral animals, particularly feral horses.

NPA is not seeking to close resorts or ban people using the park, but tighter regulation is needed to protect this precious alpine environment.

We are currently at a pivotal point in our campaign.

In mid-2004 the Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW) released a Draft Plan of Management for Kosciuszko National Park. The final version of this plan will guide park management for the next 10 to 20 years.

Unfortunately the draft did nothing to wind back inappropriate recreational and commercial activities.

NPA and its members have made submissions, and are now awaiting the final version. It is sincerely hoped that the years of work that went into this process will deliver a plan that protects the park for future generations.

It is not too late to have your voice heard. Find out how to make a submission - urgent action is required now!

NPA is also working with other environment groups to combine Kosciuszko National Park with neighbouring parks in Victoria and the ACT. The result would be a world-heritage park designed specifically to care for Australia's only alpine environment.

Click here for details.

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Page last updated 1st June 2006

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