Reserve Listing - State 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

State Reserves

Under the terms of the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002, the name "State Reserve" is applied to an area of land containing significant natural landscapes; natural features; and/or sites, objects or places of significance to Aboriginal people.

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 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;
• to encourage education based on the purposes of reservation and the natural or cultural values of the State reserve, or both;
• to encourage research, particularly that which furthers the purposes of reservation;
• to protect the State reserve against, and rehabilitate the State reserve following, adverse impacts such as those of fire, introduced species, diseases and soil erosion on the State reserve's natural and cultural values and on assets within and adjacent to the State reserve;
• to encourage tourism, recreational use and enjoyment consistent with the conservation of the State reserve's natural and cultural values.

Total area of the 60 State Reserves is 44,052 hectares, or about 0.65% of State area.

†Also declared a Protected Site under Aboriginal Relics Act 1975