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The proposed Ngarrabullgin Indigenous Protected Area Yaua waterhole after rain, Angas Downs IPA. An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a class of protected area used in Australia; each is formed by voluntary agreement with Indigenous Australians, and declared by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander representative organisations.
Western Australia, as of 2022, has 18 Indigenous Protected Areas.At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, 50,915,811 hectares (125,815,710 acres) of land in Western Australia was covered by Indigenous Protected Areas, which is 66.87 percent of all protected areas in the state and 20.15 percent of the state overall.
Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is an Aboriginal Australian-owned 320,500-hectare (1,237 sq mi) pastoral lease, within the MacDonnell Shire area, 300 kilometres (190 mi) south-west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 135 kilometres (84 mi) east from Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park (Ayers Rock), 100 kilometres (62 mi) south-east of Kings Canyon/Watarrka National Park and 40 ...
The Valley of the Giants skywalk at Walpole-Nornalup National Park Western Australia is the second largest country subdivision in the world. As of 2022, based on the latest Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report, it contains 1857 separate land-based protected areas with a total area of 76,142,710 hectares (188,152,700 acres), accounting for just over 30 percent of the state's ...
The indigenous protected area (IPA) was declared on 22 August 2002 at the meeting of the Tjirilya Aboriginal Corporation after a period of “two years of consultation and planning” with the declaration being “subsequently ratified by senior Traditional Owners.”
As of 2016, the protected areas within the Australian government jurisdiction included two national parks with a total area of 20,444 square kilometres (7,893 sq mi) and 15 Indigenous Protected Areas with a total area of 260,662 square kilometres (100,642 sq mi).
[citation needed] Over 43% of the protected area in Australia is publicly owned and managed by the Australian government or state and territory governments. The second-largest component of protected areas are the Indigenous Protected Areas, at over 44% and growing as of February 2022. [1]
The Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a region inclusive around 5,500 square kilometres (2,100 sq mi) of Yolŋu land and sea country in northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is managed by Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation through the Dhimurru’s Rangers.