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et al. 1993).

 Aṉangu use fire (patch burning) to manage their country; its habitats, plants and animals. Non-Aboriginal people now recognise that traditional Aboriginal burning is an important part of the area's ecology
 (Saxon 1984). Reid et al (1993) found that nomadic birds, some small mammals and a few reptiles favoured recently burnt areas.

 Burning in the park is carried out in accordance with traditional practices. Patch burning helps to maintain a mosaic of habitats at different stages of succession (Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories 1994).

 Regular cleaning of local rock holes prevents them from silting over and drying up. These rock holes are important sources of water for animals and travellers. Cleaning rock holes is another traditional practice that helps to maintain the biodiversity of the park.

 The park supports populations of a number of relict and endemic species associated with the unique landforms and habitats of the monoliths. An undescribed and apparently relictual earthworm is known from the southern margin of Uluṟu. The camaenid land-snail Basedowena olgana is known only from Kata Tjuṯa and Mt Conner nearby. The sandhill wattle Acacia ammobia occurs primarily just east of Uluṟu. Relict species found in the park include the desert skink Liopholis kintorei, the scorpion Cercophonius squama and five plants confined to the moist gorges. These are Stylidium inaequipetalum, Parietaria debilis, Ophioglossum lusitanicum subsp. coriaceum, Isoetes muelleri and Triglochin calcitrapum
 (Morton et al. 1995).

 Criteria: B

 The place has significant heritage value because of the place's possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history

 Values

 The nationally vulnerable mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) and great desert skink (Liopholis kintorei) occur in sand plain habitat that is transitional between the mulga outwash around Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa and the dune fields beyond. An undescribed and apparently relict earthworm has been recorded only at Muṯitjulu and the camaenid land-snail (Basedowena olgana) is known only from Kata Tjuṯa and nearby Mt Conner.
 The main occurrence of the sandhill wattle (Acacia ammobia) is just east of Uluṟu.
   Rare or threatened species that occur in the park include the mulgara, great desert skink and Princess parrot (Polytelis alexandrae) which are nationally vulnerable (ANZECC 1999), the desert mouse (Pseudomys desertor) which is insufficiently known (Lee 1995), and the scarlet-chested parrot (Neophema splendida) and grey falcon (Falco hypoleucos) which are considered nationally rare (Garnett 1992).

   Two plant species listed as 'rare in Australia' occur in the Park (Briggs & Leigh 1995): the sandhill wattle
   Acacia ammobia; and the herb Stylidium inaequipetalum (Morton et al. 1995).

   Eleven plant species that are 'rare in the Northern Territory' occur in the Park (ANCA data base). These are the adder's tongue ferns Ophioglossum lusitanicum and O.polyphyllum, the