Protected areas of Western Australia

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Western Australia is the second largest subnational entity in the world. It contains no fewer than 1224 separate Protected Areas with a total area of 170,610 km² (land area: 159,151 km² – 6.30% of the state’s area). Ninety-eight of these are National Parks, totalling 56,680.65 km²[1] (2.14% of the state’s area).

Contents

[edit] Protected areas of Western Australia

[edit] Conservation Parks

[edit] Marine Nature Reserves

[edit] Marine Parks

[edit] Miscellaneous Reserves

[edit] National Parks

[edit] Nature Reserves

[edit] Section 5(g) Reserves

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Department of Environment and Conservation 2009–2010 Annual Report. Department of Environment and Conservation. 2010. pp. 48. ISSN 1835-114X. http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/view/6139/2345/. "The area of the 98 national parks at 30 June 2010 was 5,668,065 hectares" 

[edit] Further reading

  • Streetsmart Travellers Atlas of Western Australia (9th ed.). Department of Land Information and West Australian Newspapers. 2006. ISBN 1-921048-13-1. [In the state maps reserves can be identified and are listed in the Geographical Features Index p.289 Lay summary]. 
  • Roads & tracks Western Australia : campsites directory, roads and tracks, all in one (5th ed.). Jolimont WA: Quality Publishing Australia. 2007. ISBN 1876723351. [Has a National Parks (including Aboriginal Reserves) index p.252 Lay summary]. 
  • UBD Western Australia country road atlas (11th ed.). Macquarie Park NSW: UBD, a division of Universal Publishers. 2005. ISBN 0-7319-1587-9. [Identifies reserves very clearly in maps but has no accompanying index Lay summary]. 

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