Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010 - External Restricted

Abstract

This dataset and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are presented here as originally supplied.

This dataset and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are presented here as originally supplied.

The Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010 provides both spatial and text information about government, Indigenous and privately protected areas for continental Australia. State and Territory conservation agencies supplied data current for various dates between June 2010 and January 2011. This is the eighth version of the database, with previous versions released in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. CAPAD provides a snapshot of protected areas that meet the IUCN definition of a protected area:

"A protected area is an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means" (IUCN 1994).

The department publishes a summary of the CAPAD data biannually on its website at http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/nrs/science/capad/index.html.

Purpose

This version of CAPAD 2010 is for USE BY NON-COMMERCIAL USERS ONLY. It contains all data supplied by Victoria and South Australian Forests data. It is available for non-commercial use by agreeing to the license conditions. If commercial use is sought an approach needs to be made to the individual data suppliers. CAPAD 2010 - restricted spatial data is available for password protected download from the Discover Information Geographically (DIG) website: http://www.environment.gov.au/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp.

See metadata document CAPAD2010restrictedMetadata.htm stored with the data for a list of the Main attributes in the database.

Dataset History

The Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010 provides both spatial and text information about government, Indigenous, private and jointly managed protected areas for continental Australia. State and Territory conservation agencies supplied data current for various dates between July 2010 and January 2011. This is the seventh version of the database, with previous versions released in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. CAPAD provides a snapshot of protected areas that meet the IUCN definition of a protected area.

Dataset Citation

"Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities" (2013) Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010 - External Restricted. Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 11 December 2018, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/47312aee-722e-4c6e-bef8-9e439480503e.