Australia: Places We Protect in Australia

The Nature Conservancy in Australia

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Central Australia
Central Australia — one of Earth’s last great wild places — covers more than 1.4 million square miles — over 45 percent of the Australian continent. This is an ancient landscape of stark beauty and quiet, of red dunes and sweeping desert plains stretching as far as the eye can see.

Ned's Corner, Victoria
Including 35 Kilometers along the Murray Corridor, Ned's Corner Station is part of the proposed 1,270,000-acre Biosphere Reserve.

Gondwana Link, Western Australia
One of the oldest and most isolated land surfaces on the planet, pockets of species found nowhere else have evolved here, creating a biodiversity "hotspot."

Northern Grasslands
True wilderness exists in only a few remote places on Earth. One of them is Northern Australia. Covering more than 247 million acres — larger than California, Colorado and New Mexico combined — this is one of our planet’s last great wildernesses.

Learn more about Northern Australia:

  • Taravale, Queensland
    Home to 70 mammal species and 21 ecosystems, Taravale endures the often harsh environment of North Queensland.

  • Ethabuka, Queensland
    Near the town of Bedourie in western Queensland, Ethabuka Station forms an unusual balance of desert and wetlands.