Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L01386:schedule:2:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L01386
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 5/40)
Character Range: 32867–36016

World Heritage, Commonwealth Heritage and Ramsar listings. The park is managed with regard to those listings and in accordance with the EPBC Act, including the regulations and management plans made under it. Importantly, Kakadu National Park is inscribed on the World Heritage List created under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972. The criteria underpinning that listing can be summarised as follows:

          Criterion (i):  Masterpiece of human creative genius

           The rock art sites of Kakadu National Park represent a unique artistic achievement because of the wide range of styles used, the large number and density of sites and the delicate and detailed depiction of a wide range of human figures and identifiable animal species, including animals long-extinct;

          Criterion (vi): Directly associated with events or living traditions

           The rock art and archaeological record in Kakadu National Park is an exceptional source of evidence for social and ritual activities associated with hunting and gathering traditions of Aboriginal people from the Pleistocene era until the present day;

          Criterion (vii):  Contains superlative natural phenomena

           Kakadu National Park contains a remarkable contrast between the internationally recognised Ramsar–listed wetlands and the spectacular rocky escarpment and its outliers;

          Criterion (ix):  Outstanding examples of ongoing evolution

           Kakadu National Park incorporates significant elements of four major river systems of tropical Australia. The park's ancient escarpment and stone country span more than two billion years of geological history, whereas the floodplains are recent, dynamic environments, shaped by changing sea levels and big floods every wet season. These floodplains illustrate the ecological and geomorphological effects that have accompanied Holocene climate change and sea level rise; and

          Criterion (x):  Important habitats for conservation of biological diversity

           Kakadu National Park is unique in protecting almost the entire catchment of a large tropical river and has one of the widest ranges of habitats and greatest number of species documented of any comparable area in tropical northern Australia. The park's large size, diversity of habitats and limited impact from European settlement has resulted in the protection and conservation of many significant habitats and species. The park protects an extraordinary number of plant and animal species including over one third of Australia's bird species, one quarter of Australia's land mammals and an exceptionally high number of reptile, frog and fish species. Huge concentrations of waterbirds make seasonal use of the park's extensive coastal floodplains

As part of Kakadu National Park, the use and development of the Town of Jabiru must not be detrimental to the values of the park, particularly those values for which it was inscribed on the World Heritage List. While the Jabiru Town Plan 2019 has been drafted to be complementary to those values, development within the