Examples of National Reserve System in a sentence
Dunlop M and Brown PR (2008) Implications of climate change for Australia’s National Reserve System: A preliminary assessment.
As the Department website explains: The National Reserve System is Australia’s network of protected areas, conserving examples of our natural landscapes and native plants and animals for future generations.
It is made up of Commonwealth, state and territory reserves, Indigenous lands and protected areas run by non-profit conservation organisations, through to ecosystems protected by farmers on their private working properties.49 However, the EPBC Act does not currently recognise the National Reserve System as a matter of national environmental significance.
For terrestrial reserves refer to the document “ Australia’s Strategy for the National Reserve System 2009 – 2030”.
Indigenous Protected Areas are also effective, encompassing areas of land and sea country owned or managed by Indigenous groups which are voluntarily managed as a protected area for biodiversity conservation through an agreement with the Australian Government as part of the National Reserve System.
It is this form of land tenure that is seeing more and more of the Indigenous estate incorporated in the Australian National Reserve System.
A protected area system on public land of a quality, scale and tenure, compatible with the National Reserve System that protects areas of National and International significance consistent with the terms of the Tasmanian Forests Agreement 2012.
Dunlop M and Brown PR (2008) Implications of CLiamte Change for Australia’s National Reserve System: A Preliminary Assessment.
It is clear from these sections of the agreement that the Commonwealth’s intent was for permanent (999 years at the Commonwealth level) protection of the nature conservation values of this particular property within the National Reserve System of Protected Areas.
The system of protected areas in Australia is known as the National Reserve System (NRS).