A project where government and traditional owners work together to protect precious natural resources should be a model for future agreements, writes Andrew Picone. For the last 20 years, the Australian Conservation Foundation has worked with Traditional Owners, Government and other NGOs in support of establishing new national parks on Aboriginal land in Cape York Peninsula. The newest of these, declared this week, is the 16,490 hectare Ngaynggarr National Park, 40 kilometres northwest of Hope Vale. This new park protects ancient sandstone escarpments...
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