The state of New South Wales has just become owner of the largest block of private land bought for a National Park in the state’s history.
Narriearra was a working outback station in the north-west corner of the state until all 153, 415 hectares (379096 acres) of it was bought back to be protected under the watchful eye of the National Parks department.
This is great news to 25 threatened species that inhabit the area and valuable wetland areas on the property. The land is also home to Aboriginal artefacts and campsites used by Burke and Wills, early Australian explorers who first crossed The Great Dividing Range.
The newly acquired land is currently awaiting local Indigenous input into the name that will carry it forward as a National Park.
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