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Booderee National Park.

             2003 Wreck Bay enters into a Service Agreement with the Director of National Parks, marking the first step towards the sole management vision.

             2008 Implementation of the first management plan is completed and reported to the Board of Management through an audit.

             2008 Draft Cultural Heritage Strategy is completed for the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council and a working group established by the Community to identify cultural heritage priorities for the next ten years.

             2009 Second phase of outsourcing commences. Discussion begins about developing an Aboriginal business enterprise in the park focusing on cultural heritage.

             2009 Formation of a Junior Ranger program as a joint Wreck Bay/Booderee National Park initiative.

Management Plan for
Booderee National Park

Part 1 – Introduction

     1.                 Background

This part of the plan sets out the context in which this second management plan for Booderee National Park was prepared. It describes the previous plan and the network of legislative requirements, international agreements and the Lease which underpin the content of the plan.

    1.1           Previous management plan

This is the second management plan for Booderee National Park. The first plan came into operation in 2002 and ceased to have effect on 3 April 2009. Section 357 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) allows the Director to manage a Commonwealth reserve following the expiration of a management plan in accordance with the IUCN management principles for the IUCN category to which the reserve was assigned under an expired management plan.

In August 2008, the Booderee National Park Board of Management resolved to use the first management plan as a guide for developing the second plan.

    1.2           Planning process

Section 366 of the EPBC Act requires that the Director of National Parks and the Board of Management (if any) for a Commonwealth reserve prepare management plans for the reserve. In addition to seeking comments from members of the public, the relevant land council and the relevant state or territory government, the Director and the board are required to take into account the interests of the traditional owners of land in the reserve and of any other Indigenous persons interested in the reserve.

Other stakeholders consulted during the preparation of this management plan included Australian Government agencies (Defence, Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development); NSW agencies (National Parks and Wildlife Service, Marine Parks Authority, Fisheries); Shoalhaven City Council; and regional tourism bodies.

    1.3           Structure of this management plan

The outcomes in the plan are developed against the following key result areas reflected in the Strategic Planning and Performance Assessment Framework:

    * Natural heritage management (see Section 6 of the plan)
    * Cultural heritage management (see Section 6)
    * Joint management and working