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<a href="http://viral-money-machine.com/article/Australias-alps-listed-/" target="_blank">Get Paid to Submit Article like "Australias alps listed "</a><br /><br /><br /> <br /> Australia has taken the unusual step of placing its Alps, home to some native flora and fauna species, on its national heritage register in a quest to protect it.<br /> <br /> The Alps ranges 1.5 million hectares and includes 11 national parks. Its famous Snowy Mountains that inspired many Australian myths and traditions is also part of the Alps.<br /> <br /> The area is significant to Aborigines who gather to feast on Bogong moths and is central to their Dreamtime mythology.<br /> <br /> Environment Minister Peter Garrett, said the listing recognised the "outstanding natural, indigenous and historic values" of the Alps.<br /> <br /> He added, the Alps were "an important place of dreaming and gathering for Aboriginal people, and of recollection and discovery as former grazing land traversed by stockmen, gold prospectors, pastoralists, migrants and botanists of early settlement...<br>Please continue reading <a title="Deforestation Watch" target="_blank" href="http://deforestationwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=642&Itemid=30">here</a>. You may find more environmental articles at <a title="Deforestation Watch" target="_blank" href="http://deforestationwatch.org/">Deforestation Watch</a>.