Publication Date
8-2026
Publisher
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
City
Perth
Abstract
This report outlines the quantitative land condition standards that define acceptable pastoral land condition for the Western Australian part of the Nullarbor, to meet the regulatory requirements of the Land Administration Act 1997 and the Soil and Land Conservation Act 1945.
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is developing regional-level pastoral land condition standards for Western Australia as a critical component of the Framework for sustainable pastoral management – revised edition (Fletcher 2022), the purpose of which is to address the Office of the Auditor General’s recommendations to improve the management of pastoral lands in WA (OAG 2017). Application of the standards is to support management for improved pastoral land condition.
Section 2 of this report summarises the Western Australian part of the Nullarbor’s regional geography, bioclimate and pastoral history. Section 3 describes how land condition and land management are used to determine the risk of future land degradation. Section 4 explains how the standards were developed. Section 5 provides detailed information about the Nullarbor rangeland vegetation groups (RVGs) and key habitats, and the standards for each Nullarbor RVG.
DPIRD will apply the principles outlined in Section 4 to develop land condition standards for each of the pastoral regions of WA.
Number of Pages
128
Keywords
pastoral rangelands, Nullarbor, land condition standards, rangeland vegetation groups, ecology, habitat, vegetation, State and Transition, biocrust, cryptogam, erosion
Disciplines
Agricultural Science | Agriculture | Biodiversity | Biology | Desert Ecology | Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment | Environmental Monitoring | Environmental Sciences | Natural Resources and Conservation | Natural Resources Management and Policy | Soil Science | Sustainability
Recommended Citation
Waddell PA and Fletcher WJ (2026) Land condition standards for the Western Australian Nullarbor pastoral region, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australian Government.
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