Jandakot Regional Park is a conservation park approximately south of

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, Western Australia, located within the Cities of Armadale,

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, Cockburn, Gosnells and Kwinana as well as the

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. The park, established in 1997 as the Jandakot Botanic Park, covers a non-continuous area of and is managed by the Cities of Armadale, Cockburn and Kwinana. It stretches from the southern end of

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to south of

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. In Western Australia, regional parks consist of areas of land that have been identified as having outstanding conservation, landscape and recreation values. Jandakot is one of eleven regional parks in the Perth region of Western Australia. The purpose of these regional parks is to serve as urban havens to preserve and restore cultural heritage and valuable ecosystems as well as to encourage sustainable nature-based recreation activities.

History

The concept of regional spaces in Western Australia open to the public was first proposed in 1955, when the Stephenson-Hepburn Report recommended preserving private land for future public use in what would become the

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in 1963. The Environmental Protection Authority identified areas of significant conservation, landscape and recreation value, in a report in 1983. In 1989, the Western Australian State Government allocated the responsibility of managing regional parks with the

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. The park has limited recreational use, with horse riders comprising the largest single user group, but is an important link in a series of reserves in the south-east metropolitan region of Perth.

Areas

Jandakot Regional Park consists of the following major areas:

References

External links

* Parks and Wildlife Service
Jandakot Regional Park
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