Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2016

• Other Authors: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: data.gov.au
• Subjects: BOUNDARIES; BOUNDARIES_Conservation; Downloadable Data; LAND Geography_Conservation; LAND Geography_Reserve; LAND_Conservation; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/collaborative-australian-protected-capad-2016/1919286; http://data.gov.au/dataset/1499f564-a8a1-4c06-a88a-117e41da6564

The Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2016 provides both spatial and textual information about government, Indigenous and privately protected areas for Australia, in both the marine and terrestrial environments. This dataset is for terrestrial data only. State, Territory and the large NGO conservation agencies supply data current for 30 June 2016. This is the tenth version of the terrestrial database, with previous versions released in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.\n\nThe Department also publishes protected areas data for the marine environment. "CAPAD 2016-marine" contains spatial and text information about offshore protected areas, for both State and Commonwealth waters. Previous versions of CAPAD marine information have been published in 1997, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. \n\nCAPAD 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).\n\nThe department publishes a summary of the CAPAD data biennially on its website at http://www.environment.gov.au/capad/ This version of CAPAD 2016 is a public and downloadable version of CAPAD 2016 data, available for use through the CC-BY licencing model. \n\nMain attributes in the full version of CAPAD 2016 include:\n\nPA_ID: The protected area ID code. Created from RES_NUMBER if unique, otherwise it is a DoEE generated number.\n\nNAME: the name of the protected area. Gazetted PAs with no name are flagged as "Unnamed" with a reserve number. \n\nTYPE: the type of protected area according to the protected area establishment mechanism. \n\nTYPE_ABBR: the abbreviation of the TYPE.\nAA\t Aboriginal Area\nACCP\t Conservation Covenant [Approved Conservation Covenant Program]\nASMA\t Antarctic Specially Managed Areas\nASPA\t Antarctic Specially ...