Protected areas - Australia (Terrestrial)
Australian Protected Areas Database: protected area data
- Data were downloaded from the Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database: protected area data (CAPAD).
Year of the lastest update
Established areas
Not established (proposed) areas
List of types
Terrestrial
Click on columns names to sort each column in a different way. List of IUCN protected areas categories and their definitions below.
- Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/geomorphological features, where human visitation, use and impacts are controlled and limited to ensure protection of the conservation values
- Ib Wilderness area: Usually large unmodified or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and influence, without permanent or significant human habitation, protected and managed to preserve their natural condition
- II National park: Large natural or near-natural areas protecting large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and culturally compatible spiritual, scientific, educational, recreational and visitor opportunities
- III Natural monument or feature: Areas set aside to protect a specific natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, or a living feature such as an ancient grove
- IV Habitat/species management area: Areas to protect particular species or habitats, where management reflects this priority. Many will need regular, active interventions to meet the needs of particular species or habitats, but this is not a requirement of the category
- V Protected landscape or seascape: Where the interaction of people and nature over time has produced a distinct character with significant ecological, biological, cultural and scenic value: and where safeguarding the integrity of this interaction is vital to protecting and sustaining the area and its associated nature conservation and other values
- VI Protected areas with sustainable use of natural resources: Areas which conserve ecosystems, together with associated cultural values and traditional natural resource management systems. Generally large, mainly in a natural condition, with a proportion under sustainable natural resource management and where low-level non-industrial natural resource use compatible with nature conservation is seen as one of the main aims
The category should be based around the primary management objective(s), which should apply to at least three-quarters of the protected area – the 75 per cent rule (Dudley 2008).
Sizes
Ramsar Wetlands of Australia
National dataset of Australia’s Ramsar Wetlands. Downloaded from fed.dcceew.gov.au.
Use the map below to overlap maps and see which wetlands are not KBAs.