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The Western Australian rangelands is the largest of the 56 NRM regions in Australia.
Encompassing more than 90 percent of Western Australia’s landmass and more than 75 percent of the coastline, the region encapsulates unique landforms, exotic animals and a diverse cultural mix.
Divided into five sub-regions the rangelands include:
- National Parks;
- Nature Reserves;
- Conservation Parks;
- Marine Parks and Reserves;
- World Heritage listed area;
- 98 million hectares of pastrol leases stretching
from the Kimberley in the north to the Great
Australian Bight in the south;
- Key mining sites;
- Large tracts of unallocated pristine Crown Land;
- Significant areas of Aboriginal managed lands;
- Key estuaries;
- A number of Western Australia’s last wild rivers;
- Major river systems;
- Significant water resources including underground
aquifers;
- The largest semi-arid Karst system in the Southern
Hemisphere;
- Threatened species of flora and fauna;
- Threatened ecological communities;
- Areas of significance to Aboriginal communities;
- Important segments of the beef, wool, sheep and
goat meat and fishing and aquaculture industries;
- Major tourism activity.
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