Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2006B00701:front:0:p8
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the Commonwealth in managing and assessing activities in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Division 2 Cultural and heritage: values, issues and strategies

1.7 General intent

 (1) The Authority will involve the Planning Area's traditional inhabitants and any other relevant groups about ways of managing the Planning Area to protect the cultural and heritage values of indigenous people.

 (2) This Plan sets aside a significant number of places for recreational activities while ensuring that the Planning Area's existing traditional and cultural values are preserved.

1.8 Cultural and heritage values

  The Authority has identified the following cultural and heritage values in the Planning Area:
 (a) the relationship of indigenous people with the marine environment;
 (b) evidence of Aboriginal connections to the islands;
 (c) relics, including shipwrecks and the remains of aircraft;
 (d) historical facilities such as the South Brook Island lighthouse;
 (e) the recreational activities available to the Planning Area's visitors and the community.

Note   A number of sites in the region are specifically referred to in the Register of the National Estate, prepared under the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975. These include the Great Barrier Reef Region and Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, the Wet Tropics Forests of North Queensland and the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, and the Rockingham Bay and Scraggy Point Fish Traps.

1.9 Cultural and heritage issues

  Issues relating to cultural and heritage values include the risk that the cultural and heritage values of, and use of the Planning Area by, traditional inhabitants will be compromised by inappropriate use of the Planning Area.

1.10 Cultural and heritage strategies

  To protect cultural and heritage values, the Authority will:
 (a) assign high levels of protection to sites of significant cultural and heritage value; and
 (b) consult with the traditional inhabitants and other relevant indigenous people to:
 (i) develop ways to manage the Planning Area that will protect known cultural and heritage values that relate to Aboriginal occupation of the Planning Area; and
 (ii) identify and protect other cultural sites in the Planning Area; and
 (c) negotiate cooperative management arrangements with the Planning Area's traditional inhabitants and other relevant indigenous people, especially for the conservation and management of dugong and marine turtles; and
 (d) ensure that the existing range of nature-based recreational activities can be maintained and enhanced.

Division 3 Nature conservation: values, issues and strategies

Subdivision 1 General

1.11 General intent

 (1) The Authority considers that protection of the nature conservation values of the Marine Park is a major management consideration, and intends that any use of the Park that threatens, or potentially threatens, nature conservation values will be managed to reduce or eliminate the threats.

 (2) The Authority intends that this Plan will:
 (a) maintain