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    <title>Qualla: Pimbee National Park</title>
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      <title>Pimbee National Park: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is no grand gateway here, no visitor centre, no sealed road sweeping toward a famous view. Pimbee National Park is one of the youngest protected areas in Western Australia, declared only in August 2023, a quiet expanse of arid shrubland some 180 kilometres southeast of the coastal town of Carnarvon. What makes it remarkable is not a single landmark but a relationship: this is Yingkarta country, looked after by the people who have known it for thousands of years, now formally shared between Traditional Owners and the state. A park this new is really an old thing being recognised at last.]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no grand gateway here, no visitor centre, no sealed road sweeping toward a famous view. Pimbee National Park is one of the youngest protected areas in Western Australia, declared only in August 2023, a quiet expanse of arid shrubland some 180 kilometres southeast of the coastal town of Carnarvon. What makes it remarkable is not a single landmark but a relationship: this is Yingkarta country, looked after by the people who have known it for thousands of years, now formally shared between Traditional Owners and the state. A park this new is really an old thing being recognised at last.</p>
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      <title>Pimbee National Park: The Red Heart of the Gascoyne</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pimbee lies within the Carnarvon xeric shrublands, one of the great dry bioregions of Western Australia, where rainfall is scarce and the land answers in subtle ways. This is not the green drama of a coastal park but the harder beauty of the interior: low scrub, red and ochre ear...]]></description>
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      <title>Pimbee National Park: Looked After, Not Discovered</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pimbee sits on the traditional land of the Yingkarta people, and the park is jointly managed by the Yinggarda Aboriginal Corporation and the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. That partnership matters. For too long, conservation in Austra...]]></description>
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      <title>Pimbee National Park: Rangers on Their Own Country</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pimbee did not arrive alone. At the same time the park was declared, the neighbouring Kennedy Range National Park, also on Yingkarta country, was enlarged and likewise placed under joint management. Together the new park and the expansion added more than a quarter of a million he...]]></description>
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      <title>Pimbee National Park: A Refuge Worth the Distance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The reason for all this effort lies in what the region holds. The conservation lands of this part of the Gascoyne shelter more than 400 native plant species, some found nowhere else, and over 150 kinds of animals, several of them unique to the area. In an arid zone, such richness...]]></description>
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