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Western Australia, as of 2022, has 1,233 nature reserves, of which 826 are named and 407 unnamed. At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, 10,074,297 hectares (24,894,130 acres) of land in Western Australia was covered by nature reserves, which is 13.23 percent of all protected areas in the state and 3.99 percent of the state overall. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas.

Nature reserves list

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Notes

• Investigator Island Nature Reserve is located off the coast of the Esperance Plains bioregion.
• Whalebone Island Nature Reserve is located off the coast of the Carnarvon xeric shrublands bioregion.

Key for IBRA

Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia:

See also

• List of unnamed nature reserves of Western Australia
• List of national parks of Western Australia
• List of conservation parks of Western Australia
• List of Indigenous Protected Areas of Western Australia

References

1. "Terrestrial CAPAD 2022 WA summary". www.dcceew.gov.au/. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
2. "Australian Protected Areas Dashboard". www.dcceew.gov.au/. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 10 September 2023.

External links

• Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD): protected area data
• Australian Protected Areas Dashboard

• Nature reserves in Western Australia
• Lists of tourist attractions in Western Australia
• Lists of places in Australia
• Western Australia geography-related lists