Once on the National Heritage List the provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 apply.
[13][14] In addition to the Coral Sea CMR[15] and the Heard Island and McDonald Islands CMR,[16] there are a further 57 Commonwealth marine reserves grouped into 5 geographical regions called Commonwealth marine reserve networks: Calperum and Taylorville Stations are pastoral leases located next to each other near Renmark in South Australia and which were purchased for conservation purposes using both private and Australian government funds.
[22][23] As of April 2020[update], the following sites are listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites:[24] An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a class of protected area formed by agreement with Indigenous Australians and formally recognised by the Australian government as being part of the National Reserve System.
As of April 2020[update] there are 75 IPAs occupying about 67,000,000 hectares (170,000,000 acres) and comprising more than 44% of the National Reserve System.
[25] The following biosphere reserves belonging to the UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve program are located within Australia:[26][27] As a contracting party to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (known as the Ramsar Convention), Australia is encouraged "to nominate sites containing representative, rare or unique wetlands, or that are important for conserving biological diversity, to the List of Wetlands of International Importance".