The Booderee National Park Management Plan covers seven key areas: 

1. International Union for Conservation of Nature category and zoning
2. joint management
3. working towards sole management
4. looking after culture and country
5. visitor management and park use
6. stakeholders and partnerships and
7. business management. 

An independent evaluation of the Management Plan was conducted using the Parks Australia evaluation framework, with three lines of evidence: desktop review, monitoring data and additional evidence, and stakeholder interviews. The aim of the evaluation was to affirm successful approaches, highlight issues that need to be addressed and identify opportunities for improvement. 

Key recommendations

• Maintain the current assignment of Booderee National Park to category II (National Park).
• Consider activities allowed in marine zones for the next Management Plan.
• Resolve whether the Management Plan is primarily a legislative/regulatory or strategic implementation document within Parks Australia.
• Develop and implement an integrated education and compliance program to address over-exploitation and illegal use of natural resources, focusing on marine areas.
• Undertake a full governance review to enhance and accelerate true joint management with traditional owners.
• Establish a regular monitoring program for marine and freshwater ecosystems.
• Ensure links between fire management plans and policies are directly linked to feasible implementation strategies and regular progress reporting.
• Continue supporting the long-term research program with ANU and explore collaborations with other scientific institutions.
• Native species: on the existing long-term dataset for monitoring of priority species and expand this to include agreed species of totemic significance to Booderee traditional owners.