Management plans . Resource appraisal surveys for pastoral properties . Land-use prospects . Summary of bioregional characteristics, values, conservation opportunities and priorities . Central Ranges bioregion is almost entirely Aboriginal freehold land.
Few people live in the bioregion and it is remote from main towns and other infrastructure.
There are no major industries in the bioregion, and low intensity cattle production is rare. There are few vertebrate species which occur mostly in this bioregion, although this may reflect limited information. In contrast, there is a relatively high proportion of plant species which have been recorded mainly from this bioregion, and a relatively high proportion of threatened plants in this bioregion. There have been no substantial wildlife surveys within the bioregion, although there have been detailed surveys within this bioregion in adjacent States and a survey of the Petermann area is currently underway in collaboration with Aboriginal owners. As with all other central Australian bioregions, this bioregion has suffered substantial loss of mammal species over the last century, and these losses may be expected to continue in the absence of threat abatement.