Lake Mungo remains that LM3 can not be older than 50,000 years BP. According to anthropologist Peter Brown, with the absence of the original deposit that once lay above the burial, a minimum age for the burial has not been established, only a possible maximum. In 2003, Professor Bowler led a project bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of Australian expert groups (comprising four Australian universities, the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service and the CSIRO, as well as including descendants of the Mungo people) to collaborate on a final determination of the skeleton's age. They reached a consensus that LM3 is about 40,000
Innes National Park the Australian "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999": annual candles, winter spider-orchid, bead samphire and splendid bush-pea. Native mammals found within the national park as of 2003 included New Zealand fur seal, western pygmy possum, Gould’s wattle bat, chocolate wattled bat, common dolphin, southern right whale, western grey kangaroo, Australian sea lion, short-beaked echidna and bottlenose dolphin. Birds found within the national park as of 2003 included 111 species of native bird of which 13 species were scheduled in Australian and state legislation. The following 13 species were listed in the "National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972" either as