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'Booderee' is an Aboriginal word from the Dhurga language meaning 'bay of plenty' or 'plenty of fish'. Booderee is owned by the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community and has always been a significant place for Koori people. It has provided sustenance and shelter for its Indigenous inhabitants over hundreds of generations.
A fox caught red-footed on stealth camera
Keeping foxes on the run
October 2009
Booderee is celebrating 10 years of fox management this month - but the park's not stopping there! The park is again adopting the latest technology to continue its successful multi-agency, regional team approach around Jervis Bay and the Greater Shoalhaven area.
The team is now using fauna stealth cameras. The cameras are used as a monitoring tool in areas of the park where the team hopes to reintroduce locally extinct fauna such as the long-nosed potoroo.
Christmas School Holiday Camping Ballot
July 31 2009
On the 3rd of July 2009 a letter was sent out to all campers who have participated in previous Camping Ballots. Unfortunately, since that time there has been a delay to the launch of our anticipated online booking system.
As a result of this delay we WILL NOW BE CONDUCTING THE USUAL BALLOT SYSTEM for the 09/10 summer holiday camping season.
Bookings for this holiday period can be made on the ballot forms available here or through contacting our Visitor Centre Office on (02) 44430977 or by sending us an email on booderee.mail@environment.gov.au
We thank you again for visiting Booderee National Park and hope to see you here over the spring and summer periods.
We hope to have our online booking system up and running in the first half of 2010 – keep checking our website for updates.
Closure of Cave Beach Campground and Cave & Bherwerre Beaches for Weed Control Program
27–29 May 2009
The Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts will be conducting its annual program of aerial spraying for the environmental weed 'bitou bush' from Wednesday 27 May to Friday 29 May 2009.
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Billy the Sooty Oystercatcher back at home
Billy the Oystercatcher comes home
April 2009
Billy the Sooty Oystercatcher has made a triumphant return to Booderee thanks to Taronga Zoo Wildlife Hospital. The elderly male bird had been reported as injured by campers at Bristol Point. Park staff organised the bird to be taken in to specialist care. His head injuries were so serious local sea bird carers sent him on to Taronga.
Nicknamed Billy, he was given all the best treatment but not expected to recover. With a gourmet diet including oysters, mussels, and whitebait he started to regain strength and surprised everyone by getting back in the air.
Oystercatchers are a listed Vulnerable species as there are only three to four hundred birds left. Even though they are very rare, pairs can often be seen around Jevis Bay and the coast of the Illawarra and Shoalhaven. Distinctive black birds with orange eyes, beaks, and legs they live on the rock platforms eating invertbrates such as mussels and cunjevoi.
Booderee is an important breeding area for the Sooty Oystercatcher. There are only around 80 pairs on the south coast, and several of those nest in the park every year. The birds are threatened because nesting sites on the mainland are easily destroyed. Often this is by introduced predators like rats and foxes, however, disturbance by people and dogs will easily cause parents to abandon a nest.
Booderee staff were delighted to bring the oystercatcher home. He was released back at Bristol Point by Natural Resource Officer Tony Carter. Billy seemed quite happy, immediately taking a long bath in the bay.
Booderee best at reducing carbon footprint
5.12.08
It's official! Booderee National Park's stunning Green Patch beach is the greenest in New South Wales.
Green Patch has won the prestigious 2009 NSW Keep Australia Beautiful Clean Beach Remondis Resource Management Award.
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Booderee National Park wins prestigious 2008 NSW Indigenous Tourism award
21.11.08
Booderee National Park last night won the prestigious 2008 NSW Indigenous Tourism award.
The award was presented at a gala ceremony in Sydney last night before 700 people representing the cream of the NSW Tourism industry.
Booderee is owned by Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community and jointly managed with the Australian Government.
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