The department is responsible for preparing and implementing management plans for marine and terrestrial parks and reserves in accordance with the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984.
Best known for it’s gorges, the park also features waterfalls, plateaus and broad grasslands, and has some of the oldest rock formations exposed on the Australian continent.
A plan to conserve the special features of the park and sustainably manage the park’s natural and cultural values while allowing an appropriate level of use by the community.
Natures Window - covering 183,004 hectares, the park is located about 160km north of Geraldton, and surrounds the town of Kalbarri on Western Australia’s Coral Coast.
Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park covers an area of approximately 200,000ha and will make a significant contribution to Western Australia’s representative system of multiple-use marine parks and reserves.
Within an archipelago of 210 islands, islets and rocks, this plan covers 189 islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos Islands National Park, created in 2019, about 60 kilometres west of Geraldton.
One of 11 regional parks in the Perth Metropolitan area, the park is 400 hectares in size and located approximately seven kilometers northwest of Perth’s central business district.
Occupying over a million hectares, including approximately 490 kilometres of southern coastline near the town of Esperance, the plan covers 71 existing national parks and nature reserves.
This plan applies only to the 25 islands in the Dampier Archipelago classified as nature reserves, located within a 50 kilometre radius of Dampier and Karratha.
Parks and Wildlife Service at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions is responsible for managing fire in forests, parks, nature reserves and other lands that it manages.
Western Australia's land use planning system coordinates planning, land use and development through the review, approval and monitoring of planning schemes, policies, strategies, structure plans and subdivision and development applications.
Muir’s corella, one of four corella species in the southern part of Western Australia, once inhabited most of the south-west of Western Australia from the Swan and Avon Rivers south to Broomehill and Augusta.
The Pilbara is recognised as one of Australia’s biodiversity hotspots, and is an area of high conservation value with a largely intact ecosystem that can be protected, and potentially enhanced, through focused and directed land management.
Providing technical advice and on-ground support for land managers working to protect, manage and restore bushlands and wetlands in the department's Swan Region and beyond.
