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Protected Areas in Australia
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is the principal Commonwealth legislation for establishing and managing protected areas. The Director of National Parks is a corporation established under the Act, with the function of managing Commonwealth reserves. The Director is assisted in performing this function by the staff of Parks Australia (a division of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities).

Parks Australia supports the Director of National Parks, the federal park agency, in conserving Australia's biodiversity and cultural heritage. We manage the Commonwealth's terrestrial protected areas, including six national parks (three jointly managed with their traditional owners) and two botanic gardens. The national parks range from tiny Pulu-Keeling, a pristine atoll far out in the Indian Ocean, to the iconic World-Heritage-listed Kakadu and Uluru-Kata Tjuta and the award winning Booderee National Parks.
Parks Australia also helps build the National Reserve System, Australia's great environmental partnership, and supports Indigenous landholders declare Indigenous Protected Areas in some of the most remote and fragile parts of the country.
Parks Australia sits within the Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.

Marine Protected Areas
The majority of Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas declared under the EPBC Act are managed by the Marine Division of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities under delegation from the Director of National Parks. The Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve is managed by the Australian Antarctic Division under delegation from the Director.
These parks and reserves, which are located generally in remote areas, protect tropical islands as well as cays and temperate and sub-Antarctic marine environments.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority under separate legislation.

Indigenous Protected Areas
Indigenous Australians have managed their country for tens of thousands of years. An Indigenous Protected Area is an area of Indigenous-owned land or sea where traditional owners have entered into an agreement with the Australian Government to promote biodiversity and cultural resource conservation. Indigenous Protected Areas make a significant contribution to Australian biodiversity conservation - making almost 25 per cent of Australia's National Reserve System.

About Australia's Heritage
Heritage includes places, values, traditions, events and experiences that capture where we've come from, where we are now and gives context to where we are headed as a community.
Significant heritage places are identified and grouped (by type) into lists that guide the protection and management of heritage values (World Heritage, National Heritage, Indigenous Heritage, Commonwealth Heritage, Historic Shipwrecks, Movable Cultural Heritage, Overseas Places of Historic Significance).


Sources: Australian Government - Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities - Parks Australia - Australian Antarctic Division - Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority




Commonwealth National Parks

  • Booderee (www)
  • Christmas Island (www)
  • Kakadu (www)
  • Norfolk Island (www)
  • Pulu Keeling (www)
  • Uluru - Kata Tjuta (www)

Botanic Gardens

  • Australian National Botanic Gardens (www)
  • Booderee (www)
  • Norfolk Island (www)

Marine Protected Areas

  • Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve and Cartier Island Marine Reserve (www)
  • Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve (www)
  • Coral Sea Conservation Zone (www)
  • Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve (www)
  • Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Nature Reserve (www)
  • Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) (www)
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve (www)
  • Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve (Coral Sea Island Territory) (www)
  • Lord Howe Island Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) (www)
  • Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve (www)
  • Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) (www)
  • Solitary Islands Marine Reserve (Commonwealth Waters) (www)
  • South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network (www)

Indigenous Protected Areas

  • Angas Downs
  • Anindilyakwa
  • Antara - Sandy Bore
  • Apara - Makiri - Punti
  • Babel Island
  • Badger Island
  • Boorabee and The Willows
  • Brewarrina Ngemba Billabong
  • Deen Maar
  • Dhimurru
  • Djelk
  • Dorodong
  • Framlingham Forest
  • Great Dog Island
  • Guanaba
  • Gumma
  • Jamba Dhandan Duringala
  • Kaanju Ngaachi
  • Kalka - Pipalyatjara
  • Kurtonitj
  • Lake Condah
  • Laynhapuy - Stage 1
  • Lungatalanana
  • Mandingalbay Yidinji
  • Marri-Jabin (Thamurrurr - Stage 1)
  • Minyumai
  • Mount Chappel Island
  • Mount Willoughby
  • Nantawarrina
  • Ngaanyatjarra
  • Ninghan
  • Northern Tanami
  • Paruku
  • Preminghana
  • Pulu Islet
  • Putalina
  • Risdon Cove
  • Tarriwa Kurrukun
  • Toogimbie
  • Tyrendarra
  • Uunguu - Stage 1
  • Walalkara
  • Warddeken
  • Warlu Jilajaa Jumu
  • Warul Kawa Island
  • Watarru
  • Wattleridge
  • Weilmoringle
  • Yalata
  • Yanyuwa (Barni-Wardimantha Awara)

World Heritage Areas

  • Australian Convict Sites (www)
  • Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte) (www)
  • Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh) (www)
  • Fraser Island (www)
  • Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (www)
  • Great Barrier Reef (www)
  • Greater Blue Mountains (www)
  • Heard and McDonald Islands (www)
  • Kakadu National Park (www)
  • Lord Howe Island Group (www)
  • Macquarie Island (www)
  • Purnululu National Park (www)
  • Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (www)
  • Shark Bay, Western Australia (www)
  • Sydney Opera House (www)
  • Tasmanian Wilderness (www)
  • The Ningaloo Coast (www)
  • Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park (www)
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland (www)
  • Willandra Lakes Region (www)

UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves

  • Barkindji Biosphere Reserve
  • Croajingalong National Park (www)
  • Fitzgerald River National Park (www)
  • Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve, Queensland (www)
  • Hattah-Kulkyne National Park and Murray-Kulkyne Park (www)
  • Kosciuszko National Park (www)
  • Mornington Peninsula and Western Port (www)
  • Mumungari Conservation Park (www)
  • Noosa Biosphere Reserve (www)
  • Prince Regent River Nature Reserve
  • Riverland Biosphere Reserve
  • Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park (www)
  • Wilsons Promontory National Park (www)
  • Yathong National Park (www)



Ashmore and Cartier Islands

Marine Protected Areas

  • Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve and Cartier Island Marine Reserve (www)



Australian Antarctic Territory

National Heritage Sites

  • Mawson Huts and Mawson Hut's Historic site (www)



Christmas Island

National Parks

  • Christmas Island (www)



Cocos (Keeling) Islands

National Parks

  • Pulu Keeling (www)



Coral Sea Islands

Marine Protected Areas

  • Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve (Coral Sea Island Territory) (www)



Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Marine Protected Areas

  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve (www)

World Heritage Areas

  • Heard and McDonald Islands (www)



Norfolk Island

National Parks

  • Norfolk Island (www)

Botanic Gardens

  • Norfolk Island (www)