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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]
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.
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]
The Vasse Highway forms the western and south-western border of the locality. Most of the Greater Beedelup National Park is located within Beedelup. [2] [3] Beedelup is located on the traditional land of the Bibulman people of the Noongar nation. [4] [5] [6] The heritage listed Beedelup Falls are located within Beedelup and the Greater Beedelup ...
The proposed national park, with an initial size of 149,157 hectares (368,570 acres), subsequently extended to 333,127 hectares (823,170 acres), is located in the Shires of Menzies and Yilgarn and is part of the Coolgardie bioregion. [1] [2] [3] Completion of stage one of the process of creating the national park was announced in February 2021.
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 ...
The reserve was named for Charles Lane Poole, the state’s first Conservator of Forests, who did much to establish sustainable management and conservation of Western Australia’s forests. [ 3 ] The larger portion of the reserve (419.35 square kilometres or 161.91 square miles) is designated a 5(1)(g) reserve. [ 1 ]
Mount Lindesay National Park is a national park in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. It was designated in 2004, and covers an area of 395.73 km 2. [1] It is part of the larger Walpole Wilderness Area that was established in the same year. It is bounded on the north and north west by Mount Roe National Park.