Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

Area of land set aside to protect environmental values. Development in, and use of, conservation reserves is usually restricted to activities that are compatible with conservation of the environmental values for which the reserve was declared. Conservation reserves include national parks, conservation parks and nature reserves, and informal reserves on public land, and are complemented by areas protected by conservation covenants on private land.

See CAR reserve system, Conservation covenant, Formal reserve, Informal reserve, Nature conservation reserve, Protected area, Reserve.