TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN AUSTRALIA 2002 SUMMARY STATISTICS FROM THE COLLABORATIVE AUSTRALIAN PROTECTED AREAS DATABASE (CAPAD) Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2003 Published by: Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra. Citation: Environment Australia, 2003. Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas in Australia: 2002 Summary Statistics from the Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD), The Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra. This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from Department of the Environment and Heritage. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to: Assistant Secretary Parks Australia South Department of the Environment and Heritage GPO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601. The views and opinions expressed in this document are not necessarily those of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Minister for Environment and Heritage, or the Director of National Parks. Copies of this publication are available from: National Reserve System National Reserve System Section Department of the Environment and Heritage GPO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601 or online at http://www.deh.gov.au/parks/nrs/capad/index.html For further information: Phone: (02) 6274 1111 Acknowledgments: The editors would like to thank all those officers from State, Territory and Commonwealth agencies who assisted to help compile and action our requests for information and help. This assistance is highly appreciated and without it and the cooperation and help of policy, program and GIS staff from all agencies this publication would not have been possible. An additional huge thank you to Jason Passioura (ERIN, Department of the Environment and Heritage) for his assistance through the whole compilation process. Text for this publication has in part been drawn from the publication, Hardy, A.M. (ed.) Terrestrial Protected Areas in Australia: 1999 Summary Statistics from the Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2001 and Cresswell, I.D and Thomas G.M. Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas in Australia (1997). © Commonwealth of Australia 2003 ISBN: 0 642 54909 5 i Table of Contents Protected Areas of Australia......................................................................................................................1 Scope of this Publication............................................................................................................................1 International Reporting on Australia’s Protected Areas................................................................................1 IUCN Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories....................................................................2 The Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD).............................................................3 Tracking Additions to Australia’s Protected Areas......................................................................................3 Development of the National Reserve System.............................................................................................4 Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA).........................................................................5 Overview of CAPAD Data and 2002 Summary Statistics ...........................................................................8 National Protected Area Summary Statistics ..........................................................................................13 Summary Statistics and Listings for Each Jurisdiction in Australia:......................................................23 Commonwealth........................................................................................................................................23 Australian Capital Territory.......................................................................................................................31 New South Wales....................................................................................................................................35 Northern Territory....................................................................................................................................55 Queensland..............................................................................................................................................66 South Australia.........................................................................................................................................88 Tasmania ...............................................................................................................................................106 Victoria..................................................................................................................................................128 Western Australia...................................................................................................................................146 References ..............................................................................................................................................177 Primary National Reserve System Contacts.........................................................................................178 Tables Table 1: Interim Bioregionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 5.1 Region Names and Codes.......................7 Table 2: Data Custodians and Data Currency.................................................................................................8 Table 3: Protected Area Types and Type Codes..........................................................................................12 Maps Map 1: Terrestrial Protected Areas within IBRA 5.1 Regions.........................................................................6 Map 2: Protected Areas of Australia 2002...................................................................................................14 Map 3: Commonwealth Managed Protected Areas......................................................................................24 Map 4: Protected Areas of the Australian Capital Territory..........................................................................32 Map 5: Protected Areas of New South Wales.............................................................................................36 Map 6: Protected Areas of the Northern Territory.......................................................................................56 Map 7: Protected Areas of Queensland .......................................................................................................67 Map 8: Protected Areas of South Australia..................................................................................................89 Map 9: Protected Areas of Tasmania.........................................................................................................107 Map 10: Protected Areas of Victoria.........................................................................................................129 Map 11: Protected Areas of Western Australia..........................................................................................147 ii Protected Areas of Australia Scope of this Publication This publication provides information and summary statistics on ‘protected areas’ of land and marine areas dedicated to nature conservation within Australia, oceanic islands such as Lord Howe Island administered by the States or Commonwealth and Australia’s external territories. There are nine separate protected area estates in this country, one in each of the six States and two self-governing Territories, and a Commonwealth system. A major difficulty in documenting and tracking the establishment and management of protected areas in Australia has been the myriad of reserve types gazetted. At present there are at least 50 different reserve 'types' vested in the nine jurisdictions that manage them. Each terrestrial and marine protected area type is collated into a spatial dataset known as Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD). This publication provides details of protected areas that are contained within the 2002 version of CAPAD. To assist in developing national statistics on protected areas and to track the development of the national reserve system, it was agreed in 1994 by the park agencies from the States/Territories and Department of the Environment and Heritage to adopt the (IUCN) definition of a ‘protected area’ and to also use the IUCN six level system of categories describing management intent as the common basis for comparing the many different types of protected areas. (See Box 1) The World Conservation Union (IUCN) define a protected area as ‘an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means’ (IUCN 1994). Protected areas listed in this publication are only those that meet the IUCN 1994 definition. CAPAD 2002 also provides details on the designated management intent for protected areas across Australia, identified by the allocation of an IUCN management category to each protected area to better monitor the level of protection accorded to biodiversity values. Decisions about which areas meet the IUCN definition, and the manner in which