The protected areas of the Northern Territory consists of

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s managed by the governments of the

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and

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and private organisations with a reported total area of being 24.8% of the total area of the

Northern Territory of Australia The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

Summary by type and jurisdiction

As of June 2018, the

Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory __NOTOC__ Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory (also known as the ''Parks and Wildlife Division'' in some sources) is the Northern Territory Government agency responsible for tasks including the establishment of "parks, reserv ...

managed 86 ‘parks and reserves’ including 22 that have not been declared with a total reported area of . As of 2016, the protected areas within the Australian government jurisdiction included two national parks with a total area of and 15

Indigenous Protected Area An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a class of protected area used in Australia; each is formed by voluntary agreement with Indigenous Australians, and declared by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander representative organisations ...

s with a total area of . As of August 2016, there were three

private protected area A private protected area, also known as a private reserve, is not an official category within IUCN's Protected Area guidelines, but includes those protected areas that fall under geographical space that is privately owned, 'kept aside' for public be ...

s declared under the ''Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act'' with a total area of while in late 2016, another three private protected areas were listed under the

National Reserve System Australia's National Reserve System (NRS) is a network of more than 10,000 Commonwealth plus state and territory protected areas which, in combination, on a national scale, protect more than , greater than 17% of the continent, of unique biodi ...

with a total area of were listed by the Australian government.

Northern Territory Government

Coastal Reserves

Casuarina ''Casuarina'' is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa. It was once treated as the sole genus in the fami ...

* Channel Point *

Shoal Bay In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. I ...

Conservation Areas

* Adelaide River Foreshore * Daly River (Mt Nancar) * Douglas River / Daly River Esplanade * Harrison Dam * Melacca Swamp * Oolloo Crossing * Stray Creek * Tree Point

Conservation Covenants

Lake Woods Lake Woods is an ephemeral freshwater lake in the Northern Territory of Australia. It lies on Newcastle Creek close to the small town of Elliott on the Stuart Highway, about halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs. It is important as a b ...

* Newry Station Gouldian Finch * Longreach Waterhole

Conservation Reserves

* Anna's Reservoir * Black Jungle/Lambells Lagoon * Blackmore River * Bullwaddy *

Channel Island The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, ...

* Caranbirini * Connells Lagoon * Corroboree Rock * Fogg Dam * Henbury Meteorites * Illamurta Springs * Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles * Kintore Caves * Knuckey Lagoons * Kuyunba * Mac Clark (Acacia peuce) * Napwerte/Ewaninga Rock Carvings *

Native Gap Native may refer to: People * Jus soli, citizenship by right of birth * Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory ** Native Americans (disambiguation) In arts and enterta ...

* Rainbow Valley * Tnorala (Gosse Bluff) *

Vernon Islands Vernon Islands, also known as the Potinga Islands, is an island group in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the Clarence Strait about north-east of the territory capital of Darwin. The group consists of three islands which were f ...

Woodgreen Woodgreen is a village and civil parish within the New Forest district of Hampshire in England. Overview Woodgreen lies between Breamore and Hale to the east of the River Avon.

Historical Reserves

Alice Springs Telegraph Station The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Established in 1872 to relay messages be ...

Arltunga Arltunga is a deserted gold rush town located in the Northern Territory of Australia in the locality of Hart about east of Alice Springs. It is of major historical significance as the first major European settlement in Central Australia. Earl ...

* Attack Creek *

Barrow Creek Telegraph Station Barrow may refer to: Places England * Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria ** Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, local authority encompassing the wider area ** Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency) * Barrow, Cheshire * Barrow, Gloucestershire * Barro ...

Central Mount Stuart Central Mount Stuart is a mountain peak situated in the southern Northern Territory of Australia. It is a prominent landmark easily seen from the nearby Stuart Highway, which at closest approach lies about to the southeast. The dark red sandst ...

Chambers Pillar Chambers Pillar (Aboriginal name ''Idracowra'' or ''Etikaura'') is a sandstone formation some south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Formation Erosion by wind and rain has left an isolated pillar of 350-million-yea ...

* Gregory's Tree *

Heavitree Gap Police Station Heavitree Gap Police Station is a historic building within the Heavitree Gap Police Station Historical Reserve. It is located on the southwestern side of Heavitree Gap in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. History The area was ...

* John Flynn * John Flynn's Grave * Ryan Well *

Tennant Creek Telegraph Station The Tennant Creek Telegraph Station is an historical site about 16 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia. History The Warumungu Aboriginal people were the first occupants of the region in and around Tennant C ...

* Victoria River Depot

Hunting Reserves

* Howard Springs

Management Agreement Areas

* Buffalo Creek *

* Junction Reserve

Marine Parks

* Arafura * Arnhem * Limmen * Wessel

National Parks

* Barranyi (North Island) *

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

* Djukbinj * Dulcie Range * Elsey *

Finke Gorge Finke Gorge National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin. The national park covers an area of , and includes the impressive desert oasis Palm Valley, home to a ...

* Garig Gunak Barlu * Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range * Judbarra / Gregory *

Keep River The Keep River is a river located in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of Western Australia and the Northern Territory in Australia. Location and features The river rises just south of the Newry Station homestead then flows in a northerly dir ...

Limmen Limmen is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Castricum, and is situated about 9 km southwest of Alkmaar. Before 2002 it was a separate municipality. History Limmen has been mentioned in various ...

* Litchfield * Mary River * Nitmiluk * Tjoritja / West MacDonnell * Watarrka

Nature Parks

* Berry Springs * Butterfly Gorge * Cutta Cutta Caves * Giwining / Flora River * Holmes Jungle * Howard Springs * Katherine Low Level * Leaning Tree Lagoon * Mataranka Pool * N'Dhala Gorge * Ruby Gap *

Trephina Gorge Trephina Gorge is a gorge in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the locality of Hart in the East MacDonnell Ranges about east of Alice Springs. The gorge is named after the Trephina Creek which is believed to be named after ...

* Umbrawarra Gorge * Yeperenye/Emily and Jessie Gaps

Protected Areas

* Ilparpa Swamp Wildlife * Joint Geological / Geophysical Research Station

Other places

Alice Springs Desert Park The Alice Springs Desert Park is an environmental education facility and wildlife park in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is sited on , with a core area of . It is an institutional member of the Zoo and Aquarium Associ ...

George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens The George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden located 2 km north of the CBD of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. History The gardens were established on their present site in 1886; this was the third attempt by Euro ...

* Leanyer Recreation Park * Manton Dam Recreation Area * Owen Springs Reserve *

Territory Wildlife Park The Territory Wildlife Park is a zoo at Berry Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, some (about a 45 minutes drive) south of Darwin. It opened in 1989. Situated on 400 ha of natural bushland, it contains native animals and plants ...

* Wearyan River (Manangoora) Cycad Site * Windows on the Wetlands

Australian government

Indigenous Protected Areas

The following

s have been established in the Northern Territory: *

Angas Downs Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is an Aboriginal Australian-owned pastoral lease, within the MacDonnell Shire area, south-west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, east from Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park (Ayers Rock), south ...

* Anindilyakwa * Dhimurru * Djelk * Laynhapuy * Marri-Jabin (Thamurrurr) * Northern Tanami * Southern Tanami * Warddeken * Yanyuwa

National parks

The following national parks are managed by the

Director of National Parks Director of National Parks is a government-owned corporation of the Government of Australia, Australian government responsible for the management of a portfolio of protected area, terrestrial and marine protected areas proclaimed under the ''Env ...

on the behalf of the Australian government and indigenous land owners: * Kakadu * Uluru-Kata Tjuta

Private protected areas

Northern Territory jurisdiction

See Conservation Covenants above

Australian Wildlife Conservancy sanctuaries

Australian Wildlife Conservancy The Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) is an Australian independent, nonprofit organisation, working to conserve threatened wildlife and ecosystems in Australia. This is principally achieved through the acquisition of extensive areas of land ...

owns and operates the following

s in the Northern Territory: *

Fish River Station Fish River Station is a protected area approximately south of Daly River and south of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is bounded to the north and the east by the Daly River, to the west by the Wingate Mountains, and to th ...

Henbury Station Henbury Station is a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. In March 2022 Henbury was purchased by Tim Edmunds for A$32 million, including its 3500 cattle. Description It is situated about south of Alice Springs in the No ...

(in progress) * Newhaven * Pungalina-Seven Emu * Wongalara

References

External links

Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern TerritoryFind a park to visit webpage
{{Protected areas of the Northern Territory, state=collapsed

Northern Territory-related lists