Kosciuszko National Park is an incredibly valuable ecosystem for Australia, much more important than many other mountainous continents, due to how small of a portion of the continent is taken up by mountainous terrain. One of Australia’s leading experts on the history of the region, Deirdre Slattery, stresses the importance of Kosciuszko’s mountain ranges in generating the catchments that we rely on to exist, ‘The fact that they’re the source of the rivers on a hot, dry, flat continent means that they shape the way that we live.’ @ellielouhereOG Australian Alps website Mountain Journal have broken down the impacts in much more detail in this article.