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The Botany Bay national park is near the shore of Botany Bay and has flags to represent Captain Cook discovering __Australia__ in the 1700s. The Botany Bay national park is 1,300 acres wide.

The History of the park

The First Fleet of British convicts and settlers __arrived__ at Botany Bay in January 1788, but it was decided that Port Jackson in __Sydney harbor__ was more appropriate. Botany Bay was named after sir Joseph Banks the botanist who came to Australia with Captain Cook to claim Australia for Briton. in 1984 ( 198 years after the First Fleet came) the park was __open__ to public.

Animals and Plants

Over 70 native species have been found in the northern section of the park at La Perouse, and 96 have been seen around Kurnell in the south. Notable Australian locals include the threatened powerful owl, Australian pipit, superb fairy wren, silver-eye, peregrine falcon, red-browed finch and New Holland honey-eater. Some of the park's mainly nocturnal animals include brush-tailed possums, ring-tailed possums and grey-headed flying. The park is home to both eastern brown snakes and red-bellied black snakes. The eastern long-necked tortoise and the threatened green and golden bell frog have been recorded in the southern section of the park. The threatened tinkling frog can be found in the clifftop swamps around Kurnell. There are over 350 kinds of plants in the national park including trees and not weeds.

Threats

some threats are sand mining, rubbish dumping and killing animals which means we need to care more for the park by making new rules. Another major __threat__ is weed growing because they will overgrow the native plant by sucking out their nutrients and they will die. It will also kill animals that eat the food because there will none of it left so they will starve to death. MY PARK RULES 1 NO removal of native plants from the park - or they will eventually be extinct 2 no rubbish dumping - no bins are provided so take your rubbish with you - because native animals will eat it and become sick 3 no lighting fires- because there could be a bush fire and you could be using sticks from the park which are animals homes 4 don't take anything from the park- agin you are taking animals homes

Ecosystems the eco systems are sea, forest and grassland wich means there are terestrial and aquatic ecosystems.