CAPAD (Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database) contains information on all protected areas in Australia, including their IUCN management categories.
The current version of CAPAD is CAPAD 2014. The data below has been superceded, but is still available for historic purposes.
Summary data 1997
Each state summary contains:
- Listing of all Protected Areas in the state - includes information on Name, Type, IUCN Category, Area (hectares), Gazettal Date, Location (Latitude and Longitude)
- Protected Areas in the state by Type - (Number and Area[hectares])
- Protected Areas in the state by IUCN Category
Download data
Read and download CAPAD 1997 data for the following areas:
- Summary of Protected Areas in Australia (XLS - 19KB)
- Summary of Protected Areas in each jurisdiction in Australia (XLS - 23KB)
- Summary of Protected Areas in each IUCN Category for each jurisdiction in Australia (XLS - 23KB)
- Summary of Protected Areas in each IBRA Region (5.1) (XLS - 21KB)
- CAPAD 1997 ACT summary (XLS - 14KB)
- CAPAD 1997 New South Wales summary (XLS - 75KB)
- CAPAD 1997 Northern Territory summary (XLS - 40KB)
- CAPAD 1997 Queensland summary (XLS - 91KB)
- CAPAD 1997 South Australia summary (XLS - 77KB)
- CAPAD 1997 Tasmania summary (XLS - 78KB)
- CAPAD 1997 Victoria summary (XLS - 59KB)
- CAPAD 1997 Western Australia summary (XLS - 159KB)