Human impacts on Kakadu have come through the introduction of the domestic Asian water buffalo from Southeast Asia. The introduction of this animal to Kakadu has damage the fragile floodplains and wetlands of Kakadu. Kakadu has also been mined and forested. Mining has affected the landscape, but has been reduced so only one mine is still operational. Forestry in Kakadu was very small scale and happened in the early part of the 19 hundreds, there is little evidence of logging around the park today. Tourism is also an impact on Kakadu, with around 200,000 tourists visiting annually. This amount of people could wear down sacred sites quicker than nature alone, for example rocks sites.
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What is left of a mining site
Management for Reduction |
The Asian
water buffalo’s numbers have been dramatically reduced, largely eradicated.
Giving time to the damaged wetlands and floodplains to recover. As said, in
Kakadu, mining has been reduced to one uranium mine and logging has long been
forgotten by the people and the landscape. Sacred sites have been closed off to
tourists to preserve them from tourists wearing down the paintings and rock.
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