Environmental and Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of Booderee National Park

This article presents a case study of Booderee National Park, a joint administration between the Wreck Bay people and the Australian government. It discusses the park's unique cultural and natural values, sustainable management practices, and stakeholder involvement in promoting biodiversity conservation.

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Case study - Booderee National Park
Name
Booderee National Park
https://parksaustralia.gov.au/booderee/
Management / Board Booderee National Park management is joint administration include the
Wreck Bay people who are one of the long-term guardians of this area.
This has been found that the interest of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal
community council is morally, ethically and legally reflects in council vision.
This can be evident that the environment protection and biodiversity
conversation act 1999 (EPBG Act) and the aboriginal land grant (Jervis Bay
Territory) Act 1966 (Land Grant Act). This has been found that the lease
agreement places an obligation on the director of the national park so that
the effective management of the park is done to promote the interest of
traditional owners.
The directors of the national park include commonwealth statutory
authority that is working below the EPBC act and they perform the tasks of
administering, manage and control the Commonwealth reserve. The board
of management of Booderee National Park represent the traditional
owners and they take a decision and prepare a management plan. The
members in the board of director include representatives of Australia
government department who are responsible for Jervis Bay territory.
History Booderee National Park is situated at the Jervis Bay which is on south coast
of New South Wales and falls in between the Nowra and Ulladulla. The
national park is around 3 hour’s way from Sydney. The park involves
different cultural values which include aboriginal cultural values, post-
colonial cultural values, natural values, national listings and many others.
The park covers the areas of 6,379 hectares out of which approx. 875
hectares are acquired for the marine. The park was named again as a
Booderee national park on 29th October 1997 after the declaration of the
Aboriginal land on 11th October 1995.
The history of the national park reflects that the koori people of wreck bay
have always powerfully followed and they are committed to the ownership
since long. Aboriginal individuals survived in the Jervis Bay region long
before that is approx. 6000 years ago. Moreover, the history of the water
and land reflects that they covered by Booderee national park with the
subject range of uses since the beginning of region from early 1800s.
Further, the declaration of the Jervis Bay National park was done in year
1992 by the government of Australia. In the year 1995, the title of the land
and water covered by the park was offered to the Wreck Bay Aboriginal
Community council. Further, in the same year the area leased back to the

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Director of National parks to be managed by national park.
Products and Services
(Tourism)
The national park of Booderee is a tourist place as it bushland which offers
the relaxation to the visitors. The park provides stress-free camping, idyllic
seashores with the attractive and beautiful bushwalks and adequately of
water outdoor with some additional activities for the family to enjoy. In
addition to this, this has been found that during the school outings the
park offers an outstanding program of different events in free that helps to
keep the children occupied. All these activities are effectively managed by
the community people.
Sustainability and
management
principles
Sustainable management includes the application of the practices that are
sustainable in categories of the businesses, agriculture, society and
environment by managing the benefit of current generations and future
generations. The directors of the company are offering the training and
development which is an effective way to enhance the opportunities to
manage the park which leads to the sustainability practice in safeguarding
the biodiversity. In addition, the management plan will provide the
increasing involvement in managing the biodiversity conservation which is
one of the principles of sustainability.
Jervis bay provide the support a resident population of dolphins with the
seasonal whale mitigation is a rising common feature as number of whale
are recovering. Further, the preservation of the southern representative of
the sandstone ecosystems of the Sydney basin bioregion which is majorly
important considering the influence of the local conversation of the
landscapes and species. Thus, this shows the sustainable practice
undertaken preserve and manages the biodiversity and their habitants.
Further, the management plan is form with the motive to protect and
conserve the reserve that needs involvement of community.
The park is considered as inhabitant’s reservoir for different kinds across
the regions which make it the home of a varied range of wildlife that
include more than 30 natural terrestrial, 200 bird species and marine
mammal. Thus, the management team take the necessary steps with the
community to protect them. In addition, the park offers the support to a
dissimilar variety of maritime habitat that includes the intertidal zone,
extensive ranges and many others.
Unique/special,
because…
Borders National park is an exclusive place as it is home to the Koori
general public of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community. The place still
maintains evidence of the ancestor owners with the natural phenomena
that include wind, water and other which makes the place unique. This
park is a Commonwealth reserve which is under the environment
protection and biodiversity conservation Act 1999 which was sooner
swapped with the National Parks And Wildlife Conservation Act 1975.

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The major thing that makes the park special is the significance place for the
Koon people. This park offers the sentence and shelter to the Koon people
for hundreds of generations. The place is considered as the part of the
network of sites, landscapes and places which offer the knowledge to the
people to manage their life with the lands and water.
Stakeholder
involvement
The stakeholders of the National park include the Wreck Bay people,
government, visitors and many others. These stakeholders reflect their
involvement in protecting the interest of the biodiversity of the park. These
individuals are consider in the management with motive to safeguard the
important values, customers and belief because all these elements can
maintain, promote and leads to the enhancement for booderee.
The council involvement is there is offering the services to the park which
helps in developing new community business, securing the contracts,
creating employment opportunities for the community members. The
tourists are visiting the place to get the opportunity to know the culture
from close.