From Wilsons Promontory to the Royal, you love the open spaces of our national parks – but you’re worried about them, too
There’s no doubt you love Australia’s national parks. When we put the call out for readers to send in stories about the parks they loved, we received lots of submissions. There were clear favourites – there were a number of stories about Wilsons Promontory as well as the Blue Mountains, Girraween, Kosciuszko, Lamington, the Alpine and the Royal national parks.
And there were common themes in your responses: many readers said how glorious it was being out in nature, imagining life before colonisation, when Indigenous Australians looked after the land. But some voiced their concerns about the cuts to national parks funding, and many were worried about whether these treasured areas would be protected for future generations.
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