Plant Flora at

Kakadu National Park

We, the producers of this web page, gathered information as part of a Summer 2002 Study Abroad Program offered through Michigan State University and hosted by the University of New South Wales (Sydney). The six-week program entitled "Media, Environment, and Culture in Australia" allowed us to travel much of the country, combining fieldwork with classroom experience. With the other 14 members of our program, we travelled to Kakadu National Park on a three-day camping excursion, led by the wonderful guides at Gondwana Tours. With the information gathered during that field trip, as well as research prior to our departure, we created this web page on plant flora at Kakadu National Park as a component of our class work. Although Kakadu has more than 1,600 plant species, we will present only a few of the plants, focusing especially on those we saw and learned something about during our visit.

Kakadu National Park

Kakadu National Park is known for its natural beauty and sweeping landscapes, helping it earn one of its two World Heritage listings. Kakadu also made this exclusive list based on its cultural value, as it maintains many Aboriginal occupation sites, as well as large natural galleries of Aboriginal art. Because the park includes the traditional lands of many Aboriginal clan groups, Kakadu is managed by both Aboriginal traditional owners and the Commonwealth organization, Enviornment Australia.

Kakadu National Park is not only a site of rich biodiversity, but its abundant natural resources have sustained human habitation for 25,000 to 60,000 years. Both of these aspects have made Kakadu a very common place for researchers, artists, and tourists alike.

 

Kakadu Facts

 

 

"If you respect the land, then you will feel the land. Your experience will be one that you cannot get anywhere else in the world."

-Brian Baruwei, Wurrkbarbar clan
Aboriginal Traditional Owner

 

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