Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002:reg:2015:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2015 (pt 16/16)
Character Range: 531428–534297

(r.10.03H), which correspond to the protected area management categories identified by the IUCN:
IUCN category number    Protected area category
Ia                      Strict nature reserve
Ib                      Wilderness area
II                      National park
III                     Natural monument
IV                      Habitat/species management area
V                       Protected landscape/seascape
VI                      Managed resource protected area

Reserve management must be consistent with the relevant Australian IUCN reserve management principles prescribed for each category by Schedule 8 to the EPBC Regulations and described below.
The principles provide guidance on the purposes for which an area should be used and the general types of activities that may be conducted. They underpin decisions and prescriptions for each IUCN category.
Having been designated a national park (IUCN category II) under Section 3 of this plan, the park should be protected and managed to preserve its natural condition according to the following Australian IUCN management principles:
    * Natural and scenic areas of national and international significance should be protected for spiritual, scientific, educational, and recreational or tourist purposes

    * Representative examples of physiographic regions, biotic communities, genetic resources and native species should be perpetuated in as natural a state as possible to provide ecological stability and diversity

    * Visitor use should be managed for inspirational, educational, cultural and recreational purposes at a level that will maintain the reserve or zone in a natural or near-natural state

    * Management should seek to ensure that exploitation or occupation inconsistent with these principles does not occur

    * Respect should be maintained for the ecological, geomorphologic, sacred and aesthetic attributes for which the reserve or zone was assigned to this category

    * The needs of Indigenous people should be taken into account, including subsistence resource use, to the extent that they do not conflict with these principles

    * The aspirations of traditional owners of land within the reserve or zone, their continuing land management practices, the protection and maintenance of cultural heritage and the benefit the traditional owners derive from enterprises, established in the reserve or zone, consistent with these principles should be recognised and taken into account.

EPBC Regulations schedules and management principles                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Sections of management plan that address principles