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Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) |
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Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) |
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Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2025 |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><DIV STYLE="font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>The Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) provides both spatial and textual information about government, Indigenous and privately protected areas for Australia, in both the marine and terrestrial environments. State, Territory and the large NGO conservation agencies supplied data current for 30 June 202</SPAN><SPAN>4</SPAN><SPAN>. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>CAPAD provides a snapshot of protected areas that meet the IUCN definition of a protected area: "A protected area is a clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values." (IUCN Definition 2008).</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The department publishes a summary of the CAPAD data biennially on its website at https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/science/capad.</SPAN></P></DIV><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><DIV STYLE="font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>This dataset is available under the CC-BY data licencing model and users are required to acknowledge the Australian Government, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water as the source of the data in any of their uses. When citing the data please use 'Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 202</SPAN><SPAN>4</SPAN><SPAN>, Commonwealth of Australia 202</SPAN><SPAN>5</SPAN><SPAN>'.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>The data is supplied to the Commonwealth for compilation by States and Territories of Australia and custodianship rests with the source agencies. A list of the agencies is available in the acknowledgements section of the metadata entry.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN /><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>This CAPAD data has been supplied to the Commonwealth for compilation over several months following 30 June 202</SPAN><SPAN>4</SPAN><SPAN> and has taken several months to reach publication stage. Please note that the information supplied is not up-to-date at the time of publication and release by the Commonwealth.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>It is the responsibility of the person using the CAPAD dataset to always check the metadata for the currency date and if required seek advice from the individual agencies on details of more recent gazettals of protected areas.</SPAN></P></DIV><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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["Terrestrial","Marine","Protected Areas","CAPAD","Reserves","IUCN"] |
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