Wallaga Lake National Park
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox Australian place Wallaga Lake National Park is a former national park in New South Wales, Template:Cvt south-west of Sydney and north of Bermagui. It now forms part of a greater Gulaga National Park.
In 2001, as part of the Southern Comprehensive Regional Forest Agreement and at the request of Yuin people, Gulaga National Park was created out of the existing Wallaga Lake National Park, Goura Nature Reserve, and Mt Dromedary Flora Reserve.<ref name=may2006>Template:Cite web PDF File:CC-BY icon.svg Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. (see here.)</ref>
In May 2006, ownership to this former National Park, plus the rest of the Gulaga National Park, was restored to the area's traditional owners, in whom legal tenure was vested (in trust) as part of an agreement signed by then New South Wales Environment Minister Bob Debus and representatives for the Yuin people.<ref name=may2006/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The name of the park derived from Wallaga Lake, which is of cultural significance as well as being a source of food for the Yuin people.<ref name=fishing>Template:Cite web</ref> The black duck, Umbarra, who lives here, is the totem of the Yuin-Monaro people.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
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[edit]- Webpage describing the special significance of Wallaga Lake to Yuin peoples
- NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change webpage Gulaga National Park
- NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change webpage Biamanga and Gulaga national parks return to Aboriginal ownership