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Kakadu National Park
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Australia is taking significant steps to protect an Indigenous site within Kakadu National Park, known as Jabiluka. This site is notable for having one of the world's largest high-grade uranium deposits.
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- It is the largest national park in Australia and one of the largest in the world’s tropics.
- Kakadu preserves the greatest variety of ecosystems on the Australian continent including extensive areas of savanna woodlands, open forest, floodplains, mangroves, tidal mudflats, coastal areas and monsoon forests.
- Kakadu has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, and many of the park’s extensive rock art sites date back thousands of years.
- In 1981, it was declared as a UNESCO world heritage site.
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