Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

Crown land that is formally reserved for environmental, conservation and recreational purposes, including national parks, nature reserves, state and territory recreation and conservation areas, and some formal reserves in state forests as defined by jurisdictions. It does not include informal reserves and those pending gazettal. The commercial harvesting of wood and non-wood forest products is generally not permitted in nature conservation reserves.

One of six land tenure classes used to classify land in the National Forest Inventory.

See Conservation reserve, Crown land, Land tenure, National Forest Inventory.