Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002:front:0:p48
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002
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Character Range: 140209–143562

ongoing issue that will be responded to during the day-to-day management of the park and does not warrant specific control mechanisms within this plan.

Actions

     5.1.19          Review existing documentation relating to historic sites and reassess the priorities for conservation, management, use and interpretation.

     5.1.20          Develop and implement conservation management plans for priority historic sites that identify:

        (a)      conservation works required such as stabilisation of structures and actions to protect historic sites from weathering, termites and fire

        (b)      workplace health and safety risks and risk management procedures

        (c)       appropriate future visitor access and use, signage and interpretation, and

        (d)      opportunities to promote the heritage significance of the sites.

     5.1.21          Maintain and update a register of historic sites and information about them, including their significance, condition and conservation works undertaken.

     5.1.22          Maintain a programme recording oral histories including those relating to historic sites.

     5.1.23          Monitor priority historic sites for unauthorised access.

     5.1.24          Identify historic sites to be managed as ruins and implement measures to help slow natural deterioration of the sites through agreed conservation plans.

     5.2                 Looking after country

   Natural values
   The park is an internationally significant natural landscape (including landforms and biota of great antiquity) comprising outstanding representation of interconnected ecosystems whose extent, intactness and integrity provides for a distinctive and rich biodiversity including viable populations of threatened, endemic and culturally significant species

   Objective
   Maintain the condition of the park's natural values, and support the recovery of threatened species

Although much of Kakadu's outstanding value is in its vast and relatively undisturbed continuous natural environment, within the park there are four broad landscapes, each with distinct values, threats and management priorities. Accordingly, this section of the plan describes Kakadu's four main landscape components: the lowland woodlands and forest, occupying more than 75 per cent of the park; the stone country; floodplains (freshwater and saltwater country); and rainforest (Figure 4). However, it is important not to lose sight of the value of the park as one large and integrated environment.

Within these broad landscapes, there is a great diversity of native plants and animals including important populations of migratory species (Appendix D: EPBC-listed migratory species) and many threatened species (Appendix J: Species of conservation concern). Many species found within each of these landscapes also have broadly similar management considerations and hence are effectively considered within this landscape approach.

Under the EPBC Act, the Minister may make or adopt recovery plans for threatened species and threatened ecological communities listed under the Act, and may decide to have a threat abatement plan for a listed key threatening process under the Act. As a Commonwealth agency for the purposes of the Act the Director is required not to take an action that would contravene one