Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01033:clause:8_3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01033
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 8 cl 3
Character Range: 470504–472166

3  National park (category II)
 3.01A This clause sets out the management principles for a national park (IUCN protected area management category II).
 3.01 The reserve or zone should be protected and managed to conserve its natural condition according to the following principles.
 3.02 Natural and scenic areas of national and international significance should be protected for spiritual, scientific, educational, recreational or tourist purposes.
 3.03 Representative examples of physiographic regions, biotic communities, genetic resources, and native species should be perpetuated in as natural a state as possible to provide ecological stability and diversity.
 3.04 Visitor use should be managed for inspirational, educational, cultural and recreational purposes at a level that will maintain the reserve or zone in a natural or near natural state.
 3.05 Management should seek to ensure that exploitation or occupation inconsistent with these principles does not occur.
 3.06 Respect should be maintained for the ecological, geomorphologic, sacred and aesthetic attributes for which the reserve or zone was assigned to this category.
 3.07 The needs of indigenous people should be taken into account, including subsistence resource use, to the extent that they do not conflict with these principles.
 3.08 The aspirations of traditional owners of land within the reserve or zone, their continuing land management practices, the protection and maintenance of cultural heritage and the benefit the traditional owners derive from enterprises, established in the reserve or zone, consistent with these principles should be recognised and taken into account.