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Send a message congratulating Martu Traditional Owners and the WA Government on this historic achievement!

    Dear Premier McGowan, Minister Whitby and Minister Buti,

    Congratulations to you and the WA Government on partnering with Martu Traditional Owners to create the Matuwa Kurrara Kurrara National Park and Lake Carnegie Nature Reserve.

    The announcement of Matuwa Kurrara Kurrara National Park and Lake Carnegie Nature Reserve is a historic milestone for the McGowan Government’s Plan for Our Parks initiative, with the creation of the largest jointly-managed and jointly-vested conservation estate in WA history.

    You have my strong support for this conservation achievement as the national park will preserve Martu Aboriginal culture and protect the unique biodiversity of the region, including plant and animal species found nowhere else.

    This new national park and reserve will support the Tarlka Matuwa Piarku Aboriginal Corporation and Martu Traditional Owners to protect and manage their Country and create tourism and economic development opportunities on Martu Country.

    I look forward to seeing the national park and reserve created and the long-lasting benefits it will have for Traditional Owners and nature.

    Once again, I congratulate you, the WA Government, Tarlka Matuwa Piarku Aboriginal Corporation and Martu Traditional Owners on this announcement and the legacy it will create for people and nature in WA.

    Yours sincerely,
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    WA's largest-jointly managed and jointly-vested national park created on Martu Country!

    The Matuwa Kurrara Kurrara National Park and Lake Carnegie Nature Reserve will cover more than 800,000 hectares of Martu Country in the Goldfields region and will protect  unique biodiversity and significant cultural heritage sites.

    The new national park and reserve will safeguard Martu Aboriginal culture, native animals and plants found nowhere else, including 480 plant species and the elusive and critically endangered night parrot.

    The Matuwa Kurrara Kurrara National Park is also the centre of one of Australia's biggest threatened animal translocation projects and has been vital in helping rehabilitate our unique and native threatened species like the bilby, brushtail possum, mala, golden bandicoot, Shark Bay mouse and wedge-tail eagle.

    The national park will help Tarlka Matuwa Piarku Aboriginal Corporation and Martu Traditional Owners to protect and manage their Country, and create tourism and economic development opportunities on Martu Country. 

    This is a historic milestone in the McGowan Government's Plan for Our Parks initiative and will have long-lasting benefits for people and nature.

    Today we congratulate Martu Traditional Owners, Tarlka Matuwa Piarku Aboriginal Corporation and the WA Government for creating this new national park! Help celebrate this win by sending a message of support to the Premier, Environment Minister and Aboriginal Affairs Minister!

    Photo: Lake Carnegie Nature Reserve. Credit: Bill Kruse