Posted AT 1:07 AM EST on 06/08/08
Australian Aborigines get rain forest back
CANBERRA — Australia's largest remaining tract of tropical rain forest was handed back to traditional Aboriginal owners on Wednesday, reversing 30 years of state government opposition to indigenous control.
In the remote northeast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh handed over 1,800 square kilometres of the sprawling McIlwraith Range to become an indigenous-owned national park.
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