Sentence examples for commonwealth park from inspiring English sources

Commonwealth Park is the location of Floriade, an annual flower festival that is held for around a month in spring and attracts upwards of 300,000 visitors, a number comparable to the city population.

While the state park is now safe, the future of the adjacent commonwealth's Solitary Islands marine reserve is in doubt because the Abbott government is reviewing the status of 2.3m sq km of its marine reserves.

What are the commonwealth marine parks?

Australia's commonwealth marine parks could be significantly cut back under recommendations that almost 100,000 sq km of the Coral Sea, including important coral reefs, lose their protection from fishing.

Among the licence holders, BP is set to be the first to install an oil rig in 2016, and recently revealed it planned to do so in parts of the Great Australian Bight protected in commonwealth marine parks.

Those who have spent their lives fighting for the protection of the Jervis Bay region, such as the film-maker Attila Kaszo, say the commonwealth's massive marine park in the area achieves nothing and needs to be overhauled.

The opportunity is here right now to have a world-class marine park in state and commonwealth waters off the Kimberley coast".

There are two things obscuring the truth when it comes to the management of marine parks in Commonwealth waters – they are usually far out to sea, beyond the jurisdiction of state waters, which extends three nautical miles and, secondly, the technical details of their zoning is mind numbing.

Commonwealth for the common health.

It is far offshore, over the horizon from two of the nation's oldest and most loved marine parks – the NSW-state-run Jervis Bay marine park and the commonwealth-managed Booderee marine park.

Uluru Kata-Tjuta national park was declared a commonwealth reserve under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act of 1999.