Parks Australia
Commencing 20 November 2015
Director of National Parks, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-9807460-4-4
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About the Plan
The Booderee National Park Board of Management has prepared this management plan in accordance with Section 368 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The purpose of this management plan is to describe the philosophy and direction of management for Booderee National Park for the next 10 years in accordance with the EPBC Act. The plan enables management to proceed in an orderly way, helps to reconcile competing interests, and identifies priorities for the allocation of available resources.
Booderee National Park is located on the south-east coast of Australia, within the Jervis Bay Territory. It comprises most of the Bhewerre Peninsula on the southern side of Jervis Bay and St Georges Basin and includes part of the waters within Jervis Bay. The park itself covers an area of 6,379 hectares which includes 875 hectares of marine environment and the Booderee Botanic Gardens that stretches across 80 hectares of the park.
Jervis Bay is one of the major biogeographic nodes in Australia and contains a variety of relatively undisturbed marine and terrestrial habitats. The marine environment is one of the most diverse recorded in temperate Australia, with tropical and temperate species represented. The park is renowned for its exceptional water clarity, due to small intact catchments, and for its exceptionally white sands. The park has one of the largest seagrass meadows on the NSW coast, which maintains water quality and provides habitat to a wide variety of marine species. Terrestrial vegetation communities include relic rainforest, littoral rainforest, eucalypt forest, woodland, wet and dry heath, salt marsh and coastal wetlands and coastal scrub and grassland communities. The park is rich in flora and fauna.
Booderee National Park is home to the Bhewerre People. The park is jointly managed with the traditional owners of Booderee, the members of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council. The traditional owners of the park are represented on the Booderee Board of Management by seven traditional owners, nominated by the Council. The Council’s vision of controlling and managing its own land and waters is strongly reflected in this management plan. Through taking greater responsibility for the management of the park, the Community aims to become self-sufficient and able to freely determine its future and lifestyle.
This plan sets out how the park and its natural and cultural values will be managed, protected and conserved for the next 10 years.