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Kosciuszko National Park

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Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales covers 6,900 square kilometres of land. It contains Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest peak, for which it was named after, and Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. Climate change poses one of the greatest potential threats to Kosciuszko National Park. In the Australian Alps, Bureau of Meteorology records suggest there has been a warming of the climate over the past decade of between 0.1 and 0.15°C. The CSIRO has modelled mountain-related climate change situations (CSIRO 2003) suggesting a decrease in snow cover in the area (of at least 30 days a year) by 14-54 per cent by 2020 and by 30-93 per cent by 2050. The landscape is different from other mountain ranges, like the Andes and Himalayas,
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