Reserve Listing

• Introduction
• National Parks
• State Reserves
• Nature Reserves
• Game Reserves
• Conservation Areas
• Nature Recreation Areas
• Regional Reserves
• Historic Sites

Reserves under the Nature Conservation Act 2002

Game Reserves

Under the terms of the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002, the name "Game Reserve" is applied to an area of land containing natural values that are unique, important or have representative value particularly with respect to game species.

Management Objectives

• to conserve natural biological diversity;
• to conserve geological diversity;
• to preserve the quality of water and protect catchments;
• to conserve sites or areas of cultural significance;
• to provide for the taking, on an ecologically sustainable basis, of designated game species for commercial or private purposes, or both;
• to encourage appropriate tourism, recreational use and enjoyment, particularly sustainable recreational hunting;
• to encourage education based on the purposes of reservation and the natural or cultural values of the game reserve, or both;
• to encourage research, particularly that which furthers the purposes of reservation;
• to protect the game reserve against, and rehabilitate the game reserve following, adverse impacts such as those of fire, introduced species, diseases and soil erosion on the game reserve's natural and cultural values and on assets within and adjacent to the game reserve;
• to encourage cooperative management programs with Aboriginal people in areas of significance to them in a manner consistent with the purposes of reservation and the other management objectives.

Total area of the 12 Game Reserves is 19 518 hectares, or about 0.29% of State area

* Part of Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, from 15.12.89