Reserve Listing - Nature Reserves

• 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

Nature Reserves

Under the terms of the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002, the name "Nature Reserve" is applied to an area of land that contains natural values that contribute to the natural biological diversity or geological diversity of the area of land, or both; and are unique, important or have representative value.

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 encourage education based on the purposes of reservation and the natural or cultural values of the nature reserve, or both;
• to encourage research, particularly that which furthers the purposes of reservation;
• to protect the nature reserve against, and rehabilitate the nature reserve following, adverse impacts such as those of fire, introduced species, diseases and soil erosion on the nature reserve's natural and cultural values and on assets within and adjacent to the nature 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 70 Nature Reserves is 112 808 hectares, or about 1.66% of State area.

§ Constitutes Macquarie Island World Heritage Area, from 3.12.97