Ramsar and Nationally Important Wetlands

Ramsar and Nationally Important Wetlands

1. 
   It is a good example of a wetland type occurring within a biogeographic region in Australia.
   
2. 
   It is a wetland which plays an important ecological or hydrological role in the natural functioning of a major wetland system/complex.
   
3. 
   It is a wetland which is important as the habitat for animal taxa at a vulnerable stage in their life cycles, or provides a refuge when adverse conditions such as drought prevail.
   
4. 
   The wetland supports 1% or more of the national populations of any native plant or animal taxa.
   
5. 
   The wetland supports native plant or animal taxa or communities which are considered endangered or vulnerable at the national level.
   
6. 
   The wetland is of outstanding historical or cultural significance.
   

World and National Heritage

Heritage values	World or National	Heritage type	Jurisdiction	Hectares	% of zone
Stirling Range National Park	National	Natural	WA	904.04	0.01
Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, Western Australia	National	Historic	WA	69.49	0.001

Please refer to the Australian Heritage Database for detailed information on listing criteria for these heritage values: http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/heritage/publications-and-resources/australian-heritage-database

For more information on Australia’s world and national heritage please refer to: http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/heritage/about-australias-heritage

Major National Reserve System properties

Major National Reserve System properties
Name	Property type	IUCN category	Jurisdiction	Hectares	% of zone
Lake Magenta	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	108,052	0.80
Frank Hann	National Park	II	WA	68,041	0.50
White Wells Reserve	NRS Addition – Gazettal in Progress	II	WA	53,489	0.40
Lake King	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	38,669	0.29
Dragon Rocks	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	32,247	0.24
Dunn Rock	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	24,558	0.18
Chinocup	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	19,891	0.15
Kadji Kadji	NRS Addition – Gazettal in Progress	II	WA	14,104	0.10
Lochada	NRS Addition – Gazettal in Progress	II	WA	12,497	0.09
Karara	NRS Addition – Gazettal in Progress	II	WA	11,771	0.09
Lake Campion	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	10,796	0.08
Yarra Yarra Lake	Conservation Park	II	WA	10,761	0.08
Cheadanup	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	6,720	0.05
Mollerin	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	6,506	0.05
North Karlgarin	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	5,822	0.04
Chiddarcooping	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	5,300	0.04
Boyagin	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	4,846	0.04
Ninghan	Indigenous Protected Area	III	WA	4,545	0.03
Unnamed WA28940	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	4,348	0.03
Dumbleyung Lake	Nature Reserve	IA	WA	4,101	0.03

The IUCN categories are as follows:
Ia Strict Nature Reserve	IUCN protected area management categories classify protected areas according to their management objectives. The categories are recognised by international bodies such as the United Nations and are utilised by many national governments, including the Australian Government, as the global standard for defining and recording protected areas.
Ib Wilderness Area
II National Park
III Natural Monument or Feature
IV Habitat/Species Management Area
V Protected Landscape/ Seascape
VI Protected area with sustainable use of natural resources

Please refer to the IUCN website for further explanation: http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_quality/gpap_pacategories/

For more information on Australia’s National Reserve System please refer to: http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/land/national-reserve-system

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    Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database 2012.
    

EPBC Act (1999) threatened ecological communities

Threatened ecological communities
Name	Listing status	% of total distribution*	% of zone**
Perched Wetlands of the Wheatbelt region with extensive stands of living sheoak and paperbark across the lake floor (Toolibin Lake)	Endangered	100	0.004
Proteaceae Dominated Kwongkan Shrublands of the Southeast Coastal Floristic Province of Western Australia	Endangered	1.22	0.11

* % of the total national distribution describes the proportion of the total national distribution of the Threatened Ecological Community that is found within the zone.

** % of the total zone area describes the proportion of the zone that the Threatened Ecological Community is likely or known to occur in.

It should be noted that the identification of any given Threatened Ecological Community above does not imply that the Threatened Ecological Community (TEC) is found uniformly across the Conservation Management Zone. Rather, the % of the TEC’s total distribution (*) within the zone is an indication of its importance to that zone in terms of conservation efforts. The % of the zone (**) indicates how rare, or difficult the ecological community may be to find within the zone.

The threatened ecological communities above are listed under The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), which is the Australian Government’s principal environmental legislation. For more information, please refer to http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/communities

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