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The Cane River is a river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.With its headwaters rising west of the Hamersley Range, the river flows in a north-westerly direction through the Cane River Conservation Park and over the Onslow Coastal Plain, and eventually discharges into the Indian Ocean near Yardie Landing approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-east of Onslow.
At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, 6,511,458 hectares (16,090,160 acres) of land in Western Australia was covered by national park, which is 8.55 percent of all protected areas in the state. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas. [2]
[1] [2] It is located in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions. [ 3 ] Wooditjup National Park was created in 2004 as Class A reserve No. 47956 with a size of 3,892 hectares (9,620 acres) by an act of parliament by the Parliament of Western Australia on 8 December 2004, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] as one of 19 national parks proclaimed in the state that day.
The park was proposed in the Regional Forest Agreement for the South-West Forest Region of Western Australia (May 1999), and Western Australia's Forest Management Plan 2004-2013 as part of its strategy to better protect old-growth forests. It was created by the Reserves (National Parks, Conservation Parks, and Nature Reserves) Bill 2004, which ...
Tunnel Creek National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 1,845 kilometres (1,146 mi) northeast of Perth and 390 km (240 mi) east of Broome. The natural cave through which Tunnel Creek flows is a major attraction of the park. Many Aboriginal rock paintings and speleothems are present in the cave decorating the ...
Four smaller areas, totalling 98.92 square kilometres (38.19 square miles), are designated a conservation park. [2] Under the CALM Act, land designated as 5(1)(g) Reserve is land vested in the Conservation and Parks Commission of Western Australia that is not a National Park, Conservation Park, Nature Reserve, Marine Park or Marine Nature Reserve.
Helena National Park was created as Class A reserve No. 47882 on 30 November 2004 with a size of 12,255 hectares (30,280 acres) as one of nine national parks proclaimed in the state that day. [4] [5] [6] The national park, on land whose traditional owners are the Whadjuk people, is located on the Bibbulmun Track and part of the Perth Hills. [7]
Danggu (Geikie) Gorge National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 1,837 kilometres (1,141 mi) (great-circle distance) northeast of Perth and approximately 420 km (261 mi) east of Broome by road. As of January 2024 it is closed owing to damage caused by flooding of the Fitzroy River in 2023.