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Aussie outback land almost London’s size to become national park, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories

Jaleel M. by Jaleel M.
June 27, 2020
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SYDNEY • A slice of the Australian outback almost the size of Greater London will be turned into a national park to help protect threatened species, the authorities said yesterday, in a move welcomed by green groups.

Narriearra Station, a 1,534 sq km property in north-west New South Wales (NSW) state, is the biggest purchase of private land for national parks ever made by the state government, Environment Minister Matt Kean said.

It stretches across floodplains, wetlands and landscapes “currently not found anywhere in NSW national parks”, he added.

Mr Kean did not disclose the price tag for the property.

“Narriearra is an important refuge for threatened wildlife, with more than 25 threatened animal species, including nearly 90 per cent of NSW’s critical habitat and breeding areas for the nationally endangered grey grasswren,” said Mr Kean.

Indigenous artefacts, tools and stone arrangements are also found across the property, and the local Aboriginal Land Council has been invited to suggest a name for the park, he added.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) welcomed the new park.

“This new national park is an example of the ambitious action required to slow and reverse the biodiversity extinction crisis,” Dr Stuart Blanch of WWF Australia said.

But he added that NSW needed to do more, and also called on the government to employ people from the local indigenous community to help protect important sites and manage the land.

Conservation organisation The Pew Charitable Trusts also hailed the move.

“The outback landscapes in western New South Wales have not been highly protected, and the scale of this historic purchase is exciting,” said the group’s Australian director Barry Traill.

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    Number of threatened animal species in Narriearra.

    90%

    The proportion of New South Wales’ critical habitat and breeding areas for the nationally endangered grey grasswren that is in Narriearra.

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