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time staff of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service (now Parks Australia), have carried out the
  day-to-day management of the Park. In 1993, at the request of Aṉangu and the Board of Management, the Park's official name was changed to its present name, Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park.

  Aboriginal land and joint management

  Nganaṉa nyinapai Aṉanguku ngurangka, nganampa ngura nyangatja munu nganaṉa kanyiṟa aṯunmankupai. Pala palulanguṟu nganampa Tjukurpa wanungku kanyintjaku ngaṟanyi.
  © Nyininku Lewis

  We are on Aboriginal land, it belongs to us and we are looking after it. This means that our system of law must govern the way the land is protected here.

  Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park is a living cultural landscape that is and has always been home for Aṉangu, the traditional owners of the park and its surrounding lands. Aṉangu is the term used by Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal people, from the Western Desert region of Australia, to refer to themselves.
  Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara are two of the principal dialects spoken in the park, with these language groups extending throughout the central desert region (Figure 1).
 Nguraṟitja is the term given to traditional owners that have direct links and rights to the land that encompasses the park. The term 'traditional Aboriginal owners' is defined in the Land Rights Act as a local descent group of Aboriginal people who have common spiritual affiliations with the land, or who are entitled by Aboriginal tradition to use and forage over a region. Tjukurpa is referred to consistently throughout this plan and refers to the system of Aṉangu law, history, knowledge, religion and morality that binds people, landscape, plants and animals.

 Figure 1: Approximate present-day extent of Western Desert language speakers

Brisbane

 The park is owned by the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa Aboriginal Land Trust (which is composed of the traditional owners of the park) and covers approximately 1,325 square kilometres of the central desert. The Ayers Rock Resort at Yulara, which adjoins the park's northern boundary, is owned by the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation. Both the park and the resort are surrounded by the Kaṯiṯi-Petermann Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). Declared in 2015, this IPA incorporates 50,432 square kilometres of Aboriginal freehold land. It is comprised of the Petermann Aboriginal Land Trust (44,993 square kilometres, declared in 1978) and the Kaṯiṯi Aboriginal Land Trust (5,431 square kilometres, declared in 1980).

 Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park and the Kaṯiṯi-Petermann IPA form part of a series of connected protected areas that cross the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia borders, protecting almost 200,000 square kilometres of central desert (see Figure 2). This network of protected areas contains a vast number of sites of cultural importance to Aṉangu, with Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park being