National Parks remind us of how the native land must coexist with humans and the urban sprawl of a modern city. We have to thank our forebears for their foresight in campaigning to preserve this priceless natural bushland. Established in 1897, the Royal National Park is the world’s second oldest national park after Yellowstone National Park in the U.S.A.

Even though governments have preserved land for national parks, it does not give individuals the right to alter or exploit the remaining free land.

People live and work adjacent to the national parks, so the community, including government, needs to engage in intelligent conversation about their conservation.
The community must continue to manage, and protest if need be, the urbanisation occurring through unrestrained property development, cultivation, agriculture, mining and invasive recreational demands.

These activities place pressure on, or at worst cause destruction of, these indigenous lands and hence the individual native flora and fauna.


c.2005.