Declared Indigenous Protected Areas

Map of IPA locations

Australia currently has 25 Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs), and other Indigenous communities are in the process of developing their land as an IPA.

Each declared IPA is actively managed by its Indigenous owners, who protect their land's plants, animals and cultural sites. The rangers work to control weeds, feral animals and wildfire, and carefully manage visitor impacts.

Every IPA makes an important contribution to Australia's nation-wide network of parks and reserves, the National Reserve System.

The following IPAs have been declared, covering an area of over 20 million hectares:

Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area South Australia Declared: August 1998 Total Area: 58,000 hectares	Preminghana Indigenous Protected Area Tasmania Declared: June 1999 Total Area: 524 hectares	Oyster Cove and Risdon Cove Indigenous Protected Areas Tasmania Declared: July 1999 Total Area: 141 hectares
Yalata Indigenous Protected Area South Australia Declared: October 1999 Total Area: 456,300 hectares	Deen Maar Indigenous Protected Area Victoria Declared: November 1999 Total Area: 453 hectares	Warul Kawa Island Indigenous Protected Area Queensland Declared: April 2000 Total Area: 3,500 hectares
Watarru and Walakara Indigenous Protected Areas South Australia Declared: June 2000 Total Area: over 1.9 million hectares	Mount Chappell Island and Badger Islands Indigenous Protected Areas Tasmania Declared: September 2000 Total Area: 1,296 hectares	Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area Northern Territory Declared: November 2000 Total Area: 100,993 hectares
Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area Queensland Declared: November 2000 Total Area: 100 hectares	Wattleridge Indigenous Protected Area New South Wales Declared: June 2001 Total Area: 648 hectares	Paruku (Lake Gregory) Indigenous Protected Area Western Australia Declared: September 2001 Total Area: 430,000 hectares
Ngaanyatjarra Lands Indigenous Protected Area Western Australia Declared: August 2002 Total Area: over 9.8 million hectares	Mount Willoughby Indigenous Protected Area South Australia Declared: November 2002 Total Area: 386,500 hectares	Tyrendarra Indigenous Protected Area Victoria Declared: December 2003 Total Area: 248 hectares
Toogimbie Indigenous Protected Area New South Wales Declared: March 2004 Total Area: 4,611 hectares	Anindilyakwa Indigenous Protected Area Northern Territory Declared: June 2006 Total Area: 300,000 hectares	Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area Northern Territory Declared: September 2006 Total Area: 690,000 hectares
Ninghan Indigenous Protected Area Western Australia Declared: October 2006 Total Area: 48,000 hectares	Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area Northern Territory Declared: April 2007 Total Area: over 4 million hectares	Warlu Jilajaa Jumu Indigenous Protected Area Western Australia Declared: November 2007 Total Area: over 1.6 million hectares
Kaanju Ngaachi Wenlock and Pascoe Rivers Declared: June 2008 Total Area: 200,000 hectares