Management Programmes
Weed monitoring team on an airboat.
- David Hancock/SkyScans
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 provides for boards of management to be established for parks on Aboriginal land. The Kakadu Board of Management, which has an Aboriginal majority (ten out of fifteen members), representing the Aboriginal traditional owners of land in the park, was established in 1989.
The Board prepares Plans of Management for the Park. The Kakadu National Park Management Plan describe how the Director and the Board are to manage the Park for a set period, currently five years however future plans will run for up to seven years.
Preparing the plans involves detailed consultation with Aboriginal traditional owners, two rounds of public submissions, acceptance by the Minister for the Environment, and tabling in Federal Parliament. The Board's other main function is to make decisions about the management of the Park, consistent with the Management Plan.
Day-to-day management of Kakadu is carried out by people employed by the Department of the Environment and Water Resources. Approximately one-third of the staff in Kakadu are Aboriginal people.
- Managing Kakadu's cultural heritage
- Managing Kakadu's natural heritage
- Managing tourism in Kakadu
- Telling people about Kakadu
- Estuarine crocodile management
- Weed management
- Feral animal management
- Fire management
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